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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

People who eat more nuts tend to score higher on tests of thinking and memory, especially if they have generally poor diets or exercise habits

Researchers in Finland tracked children's screen time for 8 years, expecting to document the damage

Weight loss drugs may help with mental health

ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions have increased globally across all age groups, new review shows

Vagal nerve stimulation induces vascular oscillations and enhances long-term learning

Meet Orexin, The Brain Chemical Behind Staying Motivated

Invisible potentials: A neuroscientific framework for giftedness

Early giftedness rarely lasts into adulthood, large developmental study finds

A simple drawing test may detect Parkinson’s disease with up to 99% accuracy

Living near dry cleaners linked to higher Parkinson’s odds in older adults

Higher body fat in pregnancy may influence child ADHD risk through inflammation

Loneliness rewires the brain to drive alcohol consumption, mouse study finds: « First-of-its-kind study shows how isolation escalates drinking in males but suppresses it in females

Depression stalls the formation of new neurons in the adult hippocampus, with the entire internal circuit experiencing molecular changes, signs of inflammation…

Noninvasive brain stimulation helped people with social anxiety better control avoidance behaviors in a new study, suggesting targeted stimulation of specific brain regions may improve responses to feared social situations.

Researchers have uncovered the neural mechanism that instructs the brain which daily experiences to save as long-term memories during sleep

Number of types of synaesthesia can be predicted above chance by structural and functional neuroimaging data

In recent years, researchers have suggested Alzheimer's may spread through infection, somehow transmitted like a pathogen, leading to the disease

Small fMRI study shows recall of NDEs is consistent with autobiographical memory and not similar to neural patterns seen in primary sensory hallucinations

Miniature models of the human brain can be kept alive for years, allowing scientists to study neural development and brain diseases

It is not amyloid plaques that cause sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease but microglia

Digital amnesia. Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information

Researchers argue brain waves actively steer neurons rather than merely reflecting them, making thought a partly analog process

Researchers tested standardized oral THC in 171 adults with PTSD-related nightmares

Ketamine’s rapid relief of suicidal thoughts may be linked to an increase in morning cortisol

Brain scans reveal that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share strikingly similar patterns of brain changes, adding to growing evidence that the two conditions may have more in common biologically than previously thought.

At least 1 in 4 former NFL players who died during 2016-21 had evidence of brain disease at death linked to repeated head impacts

MRI may help predict progression in early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

A urinary tract infection that follows a moderate brain injury can worsen cognitive problems caused by the injury, new research in mice shows

Brain imaging study found how we retrieve a memory can alter how the brain represents it the next time, with memories retaining neural traces of previous recall, suggesting that memory is something that can change as we use it

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