A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain's complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A ...

Is brain imaging overlooking the truth? Research shows that "weak" brain connections predict behavior as well as top signals, opening new targets for depression and psychiatric care.

The brain does not only cooperate; it also competes. So determines an international study by the University of Oxford, the ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School has found that damage to a specific region of the brain ...

Scientists are uncovering a surprising connection between autism and ADHD that goes deeper than labels. Instead of diagnoses, it’s the severity of autism-like traits that seems to shape how the brain ...

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Perhaps you have heard about the body’s second brain and wondered what it is. The name is a reflection of the complexity and number of neurons in the enteric nervous system, or ENS. The ENS controls ...