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Resulting atlas of the aging human brain holds molecular insights into the brain’s vulnerability and resilience.

Psychologists have used the hit TV series Game of Thrones to understand how the brain enables us to recognize faces. Their findings provide new insights into prosopagnosia or face blindness, a condition that impairs facial recognition.

Researchers have shown that a higher Brain Care Score is also associated with a lower risk of late-life depression. The findings provide further evidence of shared biological risk factors for stroke, dementia and depression and highlight the potential …

Years of high systolic blood pressure are linked to a greater risk for the two most common types of stroke. The results suggest that early diagnosis and sustained control of high blood pressure over the lifespan are critical to preventing stroke, espec…

Scientists created new tools to study brain messenger proteins called neuropeptides in the brains of behaving animals, discovering they are the primary messengers in the fear circuit in mouse brains, and that multiple neuropeptides work together to ach…

A new study reveals that neurons establish ‘mini-computers’ very early in life to make the brain computationally powerful.

Is it possible to assess an individual’s risk of psychosis? Identifying predictive markers is a key challenge in psychiatry. A team now shows that overly strong or weak interconnections between certain brain areas could be a predictive marker of the di…

Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of ‘self medication’ to ease bipolar’s life-altering symptoms of mania, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances and more. But a n…

Ever hear the old adage that time flies when you’re having fun? A new study suggests that there’s a lot of truth to the trope.

Researchers have developed a new formal description of internal world models, thereby enabling interdisciplinary research. Internal world models help to make predictions about new situations based on previous experience and to help find one’s bearings….