Most friendships don't fall apart in a single dramatic moment. They quietly fade when the group stops doing things together ...

A signaling pathway best known for shaping the brain before birth also helps govern how adults learn, adapt, and persist in ...

For over 60 years, metformin has been a first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, yet scientists have not fully understood how it works. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, along with ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

New research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) reveals how two different parts of the brain's memory ...

The researchers found a pathway that connects the brain's stress centers to the region responsible for habits and decision‑making. The stress centers include two small regions deep in the brain called ...

While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

(NewsNation) — For more than 60 years, doctors have prescribed metformin as a frontline treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Now, researchers say they’ve uncovered something that was hiding in plain sight: ...

Using sensors and a light-activated drug, the team mapped neural pathways used by endogenous opioids to send pain relief ...

How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...