Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child's brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic ...

Science and institutions like AIIMS now validate meditation as a clinical tool. Studies show it reduces stress, improves ...

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

Mitochondria - cellular energy hubs in the brain - may be the key link between life stress, trauma, and changes in mental ...

New research shows how CCN1, a protein secreted by astrocytes, is critical for stabilizing neural circuits in adulthood.

The bean-shaped organelles are now being recognized for their part in immune signaling, stress responses, and neural ...

A stressful year leads to anxiety . Lasting isolation gives way to depression . An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing. Psychological and ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides a detailed look at how the psychedelic drug psilocybin facilitates the unlearning of fear in the brain. The research reveals that the drug does ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections, and as a result, in signal ...

Researchers uncovered an unexpected form of neural resilience: after traumatic injury, surviving retinal cells in mice grow new branches that reestablish lost connections in the brain’s visual system, ...

The brain's waste-clearing system significantly declines in function with repeated head impacts, according to a new study of cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters.