New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve symptoms when standard treatments don’t work.

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as a slow catastrophe that begins inside the brain and stays ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Researchers have identified OTULIN, an immune-regulating enzyme, as a key trigger of tau buildup in the brain. When OTULIN ...

Scientists have found that adding a missing phospholipid back into the bloodstream might help improve blood flow and reduce ...

Recent research indicates that bodily inflammation may disrupt the brain’s ability to process rewards and risks in American Indian adults who have experienced depression. The study found that higher ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Synaptic plasticity - the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning - is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...