The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

Recent research shows that the human brain often reaches its peak much later than commonly believed. While physical abilities ...

Around 70% of women who suffer a sexual assault develop PTSD. Now, scientists have shown that many of these women show a ...

A new study reveals that an overgrowth of Candida albicans, a common gut fungus, may alter the brain’s dopamine reward circuitry and influence alcohol consumption.

As recent artificial intelligence (AI) models' capacity to understand and process long, complex sentences grows, the ...

LLMs and the Brain, a symposium featuring researchers from Rice, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Montreal and other ...

Too much alone time during teenage years may do more than affect friendships. While some solitude is normal, persistent ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

Early research suggests a brain test may predict whether antidepressants will cause sexual dysfunction. There has never been ...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising non-invasive neuroimaging technique that works by detecting ...

Previous research investigating sex differences in brain ageing has shown mixed results, Ravndal adds. Several studies have ...

Recent research has highlighted the effects of disorders of gut-brain interaction and environmental stressors — including social determinants of health — on two distinct eating behaviors.Studies ...