5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (573+ words) The prenatal to postnatal development of our brains involves a complex cascade of chemicals, branching brain-signaling pathways, and unfolding neural cells – the evolution of a universe in microcosm. This incredibly intricate development can lead to potentially debilitating conditions like obsessive-compulsive…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (283+ words) Anxiety disorders are humanity's most common mental disorders, affecting some 359 million people globally....

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (641+ words) We know sleep and Alzheimer's disease are intricately linked. In a new study published in the journal Neurology, a team of scientists explores the associations between particular kinds of electrical activity that occur during deep sleep, a peptide neurotransmitter called…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (636+ words) For anybody with a loved one experiencing dementia or Alzheimer's, news of prospective drug treatments failing or producing mixed results is a cause for concern. But emerging evidence gives reasons for hope too, with research suggesting a common vitamin supplement…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (324+ words) Schizophrenia can affect how a person perceives reality, thinks, and communicates, sometimes causing hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, reduced motivation, and cognitive difficulties....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (864+ words) Psychedelics are becoming more clinically relevant, and a slew of recent research has explored the effects of psilocybin in ever-greater detail, revealing that it has the ability to imprint lasting, meaningful changes in brain activity. Psilocybin, the psychoactive powerhouse in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (753+ words) After centuries of medical science, it's reasonable to assume that we have a complete tally of all the organs in the human body by now. But scientists just keep discovering new ones working thanklessly in the background, performing vital functions…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (936+ words) Years before a Parkinson's diagnosis – sometimes as many as two decades before – the disease is already making itself known in the body. Not through tremors or anything outwardly visible, but through something less dramatic: constipation and trouble sleeping. It's a…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (408+ words) It's long been known that depression has links to dementia and also specifically to Alzheimer's disease, but exactly how depression and cognitive decline may interact with one another remains unexplained....