Forget crowd sizes — a new study confirms that conservatives boast slightly larger amygdalas, the part of the brain that plays a key role in identifying and reacting to potential threats, compared ...

New Japanese research links higher vitamin C blood levels to better-preserved brain structure and stronger neural connections ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

The human brain is a marvel of complexity. It contains specialised and interconnected structures controlling our thoughts, personality and behaviour. The size and shape of our brains also play a ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

Existing three-dimensional (3D) neuronal culture technology has limitations in brain research due to the difficulty of precisely replicating the brain's complex multilayered structure and the lack of ...

Stress is not something you can avoid, but it’s something you can manage. Whether it’s finances, relationships, or general ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study appearing in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows how these differences manifest themselves in the structure of the ...

A recent study published in Cell Death & Disease suggests that specific cellular abnormalities in the brain associated with ...

Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, San Francisco researchers found that childhood trauma, poverty, ...