Inflammation in former football players was tied to limbic white matter damage and worse memory, revealing a potential pathway linking repetitive head impacts to later cognitive decline.

As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.

Functional” fragrances claim to boost your mood or help you feel more calm and focused. Experts tell us if they work.

A Scientific Examination of Fragrance Sensitivity, Endocrine Disruption, and the Hidden Impact of Synthetic Scent on ...

A growing body of laboratory research suggests that caffeine, the most consumed psychostimulant in the world, may reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression by suppressing inflammatory signaling inside ...

A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of ...

Deep in our cells, a wide range of processes are occurring constantly. These cellular processes rely on enzymes to act as catalysts and set off a series of molecular interactions. There are still many ...

Appetite is governed by gut hormones, not willpower. GLP-1 therapies extend natural satiety signals and expose the biology ...

Zulfiqar A Bhutta and colleagues argue that the response to children in fragile and conflict affected settings must move beyond event based framings to tackle cumulative and intergenerational ...

Has your relationship been feeling a little off, a little mundane, a little boring? You can reignite the spark simply by experimenting with food.

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

One of the most important and least resolved questions in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRDs) is why brain-damaging pathology emerges in later ...