To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on ...

Alzheimer's disease not only robs people of their memory but also affects mood, often causing anxiety and depression. Until now, scientists haven't fully understood how these symptoms are connected in ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in human brain development: two distinct groups of early cells follow separate ...

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have found that the human brain developed from two distinct neural systems that evolved ...

A new small study in rats reveals that the digestive tract communicates with the brain during meals to help remember where food was found, a process that can be disrupted by an early-life junk food ...

A new UCLA study has found a connection between how quickly the brain ages and the bacteria and chemical byproducts found in ...

Research has shown that a good night's sleep has many benefits, including memory consolidation. How sleep enables the brain to strengthen memories is still not completely understood, but a new ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have demonstrated that caffeine can restore social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by ...

A study of 61 healthy women found region-specific associations between microbial pathways, brain chemistry, anxiety, depression, and sleep quality.

Newswise — Alzheimer’s disease not only robs people of their memory but also affects mood, often causing anxiety and depression. Until now, scientists haven’t fully understood how these symptoms are ...