Think back through your day and consider all the amazing tasks your brain has helped you perform. From brushing your teeth to eating your lunch and reading the words on this page, your thoughts, ...

Drinking alcohol is often linked to liver problems, especially fatty liver. However, alcohol can affect your overall health negatively in more ways than one. It can cause both short-term effects, such ...

Recent research, published in Biological Psychiatry, provides the first proof that evidence-based parenting programs are accompanied by specific changes in children's brain activity and ...

Most people recognize Alzheimer's from its devastating symptoms such as memory loss, while new drugs target pathological aspects of disease manifestations, such as plaques of amyloid proteins. Now a ...

Brain health involves the optimal functioning of the brain across various domains, including cognitive function, motor skills, sensory function, and emotional health. There are many different types of ...

Learning to play a musical instrument can protect your brain from aging, building up a defense against cognitive decline that lasts a lifetime. Researchers from Canada and China discovered older ...

To shed new light on the contribution of different brain regions and neural circuits to specific mental functions, neuroscientists and medical researchers rely on advanced imaging techniques and ...

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

For cyclists, there’s perhaps no better endorsement of a supplement’s effectiveness than it being used by three-quarters of the Tour de France peloton. That’s how many riders are believed to have ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a biohybrid robotic component that uses printed cells to mimic how tendons attach muscle to bone. Soft Robotics Lab/ETH Zurich Developed by the Swiss ...