Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

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 ...

Understanding the mechanisms of brain function and dysfunction is at the core of the neuroscience mission. However, the field’s grasp of causal relationships between brain properties has been hindered ...

A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into developmental disorders and potential therapies. In a study published in Cell ...

Population cohorts combining genetics with multi-organ imaging reveal that brain disorders share a distributed genetic ...

Early childhood maltreatment leaves a distinct structural footprint on the human brain, but chronic alcohol use might obscure or reshape these neurodevelopmental marks over time. A new study published ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

NEW YORK and BOSTON, Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A groundbreaking study published today in the journal CELL and led by researchers from the Living Brain Project at the Icahn School of Medicine ...

A recent study may reshape our understanding of brain evolution and open new avenues for studying neurological diseases.

A side view of a "xenocortical" mouse brain, with the grafted human tissue seen in green and red. S. Pașca Lab / Stanford University In a research lab in California, mice that look ordinary on the ...