Controlled fear might temporarily alter brain patterns linked to depression

Disconnecting part of the brain sends it into a deep sleep.

Research provides evidence that longer screen time is associated with increased ADHD symptoms and brain structural development

Cannabidiol may ease Alzheimer’s-related brain inflammation and improve cognition

2 brain scans are better than 1 in predicting teen anxiety, study finds: Combining brain imaging methods may help forecast which adolescents are most at risk for developing anxiety disorders…

Letting your mind wander can reset your brain

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

Using your native language can temporarily "shield" your brain from making specific grammar errors in your second language that you would normally make

New research in mice finds that neurons create fatty acids which are used to generate the energy needed to keep brain cells functioning.

LLMs can get "brain rot"

Lapses of attention leading to zoning out in sleep-deprived people coincide with wave of cerebrospinal fluid flowing out of the brain, finds new EEG and fMRI study

Inflammation leads to lower reward motivation by causing microglia to remove glutamate inputs from dopamine neurons in the brain’s reward center

Stroke Damage Reversed As Stem Cells Regrow the Brain

The brain's ability to form memories may rely on a 'chimera state', a strange physical state where some neurons sync up while others don't

Bertie the Brain

A severed brain reveals the power to reroute communication

Dementia linked to problems with brain’s waste clearance system: impaired movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) predicted risk of dementia later in life among 40,000 adults

Prenatal exposure to common “forever chemicals” linked to changes in children’s brain structure

Levels of PFAS, or forever chemicals, in mothers’ blood during pregnancy are associated with many aspects of their children’s brain structure and function

The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models

Brain area linked to chronic pain discovered — offering hope for treatments

People on the far-right and far-left exhibit strikingly similar brain responses

Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s: During ageing, men experience a greater reduction in volume across more regions of the brain than women do

Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

How emotional memories are engraved on the brain, with surprising helper cells

Epigenetic switch to turn memories on and off created: Researchers used CRISPR tools to control the Arc gene in memory-storing engram cells in the brain

Researchers grow personalised cures with brain organoids

Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?

Creative hobbies could slow brain ageing at the molecular level

Tiny sugars in the brain disrupt emotional circuits, fueling depression, study on mice finds: IBS researchers identify molecular pathway in the mice's brain that directly links abnormal sugar modifications on proteins to depressive behaviors

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