Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain's complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A ...

Is brain imaging overlooking the truth? Research shows that "weak" brain connections predict behavior as well as top signals, opening new targets for depression and psychiatric care.

Experts say IBS and anxiety may be deeply connected through a powerful gut-brain loop that millions still misunderstand.

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands ...

The cerebellum, a part of the brain traditionally associated with balance and movement, is also important for more complex ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how the drug could be breaking loops of depressive thinking. "Rumination is ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

The largest analysis of psychedelic brain imaging to date offers a clearer picture of how psychedelic drugs affect the brain.

When it comes to physical fitness, most people over 50 ignore giving their brains a workout. Unfortunately, our daily ...

Humans are social beings, and it shouldn’t be surprising that there are specific groups of nerve cells in the brain that are directly influenced by social experiences. One important mechanism ...