Increasing physical fitness leads to a larger release of BDNF and better prefrontal cortex activity after a single session of exercise.

Increasing our level of physical fitness leads to a bigger release of brain-boosting proteins following one session of exercise, finds a new study led by a UCL researcher. The study, published in ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

Even a single instance of vigorous exercise measurably improves brain function, and that improvement lasts up to two hours. That’s the result of research by New York University Center for Neural ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

A study published in Nature on August 6, 2025, found that lithium is the only metal significantly depleted in the prefrontal ...