Vitamin B-12 is like magic for your brain — but many people are low or deficient in it

The nutrient plays a role in memory, focus, mental health and so much more. Here's how to get more of it.

A curiosity-driven journey toward understanding brain folding

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Depression, anxiety and other disorders may have the same genetic cause, study finds

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder groups sharing DNA patterns.

Meet The Squirrel That Turns Off Its Brain For 8 Months Every Year — A Biologist Explains

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

OHSU researchers identify key trigger behind brain disorder often mistaken for mental illness

Some serious brain disorders begin with symptoms that are easy to misinterpret. A person may become confused, forgetful or ...

Exercise and enriched environments help protect brain barrier from stress-linked depression, finds study

A research team at Université Laval may have discovered why physical exercise and living in favorable socioeconomic ...

Scientists once thought the brain couldn’t be changed. Now we know different

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...
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Brain activity reveals a new way behavior is organized

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...
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Federal funding cuts hinder lifesaving brain research | Opinion

If not for years of brain research, I would be living in unending, unremitting pain. My head would be twisted to one side, and I’d cope as best I could with a diet of old-timey muscle relaxants and ...