Children as young as 4 with a higher body mass index (BMI) show differences in several brain regions involved in reward, ...

Researchers at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have found the first direct brain evidence for a cause of the exhaustion and mental fog that trail long COVID: a measurable loss of ...

A thickening cortex, as shown in MRIs, preceded amyloid-beta accumulation, a known hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, by up to seven years.

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have succeeded in showing, in an animal model, that the process of insulin resistance in the brain affects both Alzheimer's disease and ...

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

A new study published April 2 in Nature, digs into how the brain ties flavors to sickness, revealing a process that mirrors human reactions to foodborne illness. Led by Christopher Zimmerman and Ilana ...

It's estimated that anywhere from three to seven percent of school-age children may have dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental issue that affects reading, spelling, and writing. There are different ideas ...

Cytokines are well-known players in the immune response, helping to control inflammation and coordinate the responses of other immune cells. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that some ...

It is sometimes called "momnesia," "mommy brain," "pregnancy brain" or "baby brain" - the forgetfulness, mental fogginess and ...