In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that schizophrenia affects about 24 million people worldwide, and one ...

An occipital stroke happens in the back of the brain. This lobe, or part of the brain, helps people to recognize what they see. That means strokes in the occipital lobe can cause vision changes, which ...

A study published in Translational Psychiatry found that the brain’s synaptic pruning process — essentially “decluttering” unused neural pathways — peaks around this age, which could explain why so ...

Largest brain aging study points to possible connections between diet, inflammation, and brain health. Scientists at the ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...

Gender differences define how the human brain ages, and telltale biomarkers in the blood may be strongly suggestive of ...

While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...

A new study shows that intelligence is best predicted by global brain connectivity, not just specific regions, indicating a ...

Scientists mapped how aging alters gene expression across brain cell types in mice, revealing immune activation, neuronal ...

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

Growing brain research reveals the habenula's outsize impact on our health, from mood and anxiety to addiction and sleep.

Frontal lobe seizures can be difficult to distinguish from non-epileptic seizures or sleep disorders. Addition- ally, the ictal EEG is often normal. To illustrate the challenging semiology and ...