Heat Exposure During Pregnancy and Infancy May Influence Children’s Brain Development

Sugar-coated nanoparticles cross the blood-brain barrier and shrink glioblastoma tumors in mice

Wealth and air pollution emerge as top predictors of US state autism rates

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Dendritic morphology and synaptic nonlinearities enhance functional complexity in human cortical neurons

The stomach helps the brain form memories: signals traveling from the gut through the vagus nerve can also help to form memories, with high-fat and high-sugar foods triggering the strongest memory-related brain activity in rats, but chronic exposure to these items worsens memory formation over time

Adults who learn new languages fastest show stronger activity in the brain's dorsal attention and frontoparietal networks

New research reveals that year-to-year increases in problematic social media use (PSMU) are directly linked to rising attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms…

Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented by tackling modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, smoking, low education or social isolation, but new research suggests current public health approaches are falling short of driving real behaviour change.

Research has found children born during the first COVID-19 lockdown in England had lower reported levels of executive function - crucial skills involved in making plans…