In a paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers have mapped how stress events during pregnancy can ...

Certain cells in the brain create a nurturing environment, enhancing the health and resilience of their neighbors, while others promote stress and damage. Using spatial transcriptomics and AI, ...

Access to omics data has furthered our understanding of neurobiology, including the mechanics of early brain development and neurodegenerative conditions. Scientists have made good progress in ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the well-controlled and yet highly nimble nature of ...

A novel mathematical approach enables the identification of brain regions whose connectivity shifts in autism or aging, informing targeted brain stimulation therapies.

Findings from a study suggest that using a specialized diffusion weighted MRI scan to monitor the spatial pattern of individual cortical microstructural change in the brain may be a promising approach ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

The maternal microbiome and immune system have both independent and synergistic effects on fetal brain health—changes in the ...

A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...