It’s a common claim that pregnancy makes you forgetful. But does “pregnancy brain” actually exist?

There’s no doubt that many changes happen to a woman’s body during pregnancy, but how do these changes affect – or originate in – the brain?

The burst of energy and hyperactivity that comes with a cocaine high is a rather accurate reflection of what’s going on in the brain of its users, finds a study published November 25 in Cell Reports.

Through experiments conducted in rats exposed to cocaine, the researchers mapped out the network of circuits that cause wild firing of neurons that produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter that regulates movement and emotion.

New research that involved the examination of thousands of genes from nearly 150 human brains shows the circadian rhythm of gene activity changes with aging.

The findings from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine suggest that a biological clock begins ticking in the older brain.

Researchers have mapped 180 distinct areas in our brain’s outer mantle, or cortex — more than twice the number previously known.

The research offers additional insight into why this type of dementia causes people to lose the ability to express themselves and understand language

The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused by a buildup of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer’s disease.

You can swot up on vocabulary in your sleep – but only if you don’t confuse your brain in the process.

Researchers funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation have invited people to their sleep lab for a Dutch language course.

A new study: how the subtle changes within cells could underlie autism.

A study led by the University of Utah School of Medicine provides new insights into how the subtle changes within cells, caused by disruptions in a gene called Kirrel3, could underlie some types of intellectual disability and autism.

You may believe that you have forgotten the Chinese you spoke as a child, but your brain hasn’t.

Moreover, that “forgotten” first language may well influence what goes on in your brain when you speak English or French today.

A new study shows what happens in the brain when stress triggers anxiety.

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, could help researchers identify new targets for drug therapies to treat anxiety disorders.

Northwestern University professor Nina Kraus shed light on one of the brain's most complex tasks -- making sense of sound -- during the recent Falling Walls conference in Berlin

The annual gathering features significant discoveries or "breakthroughs" by 20 of the world's leading scientists and social leaders across a wide range of fields.

New research finds that an imbalance between two neurochemical systems in the brain is linked to posttraumatic stress disorder with the greater the imbalance, the more serious the symptoms.

Researchers from Uppsala University and the medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, found that people with posttraumatic stress disorder have an imbalance between two neurochemical systems in the brain, serotonin, and substance P.

Major depression, which afflicts one in six people at some point in their life, is the leading global cause of disability – surpassing cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer and HIV/AIDS combined.

In a groundbreaking theoretical review paper published in the peer-reviewed journal, Trends in Neurosciences, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggest that “progress in the understanding of the biology of depression has been slow,” requiring expanding beyond the “abnormalities in the functioning of neurons.”

When people with anorexia nervosa decide what to eat, they engage a part of the brain associated with habitual behavior.

This finding by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and New York University was published today in Nature Neuroscience.

Pathological narcissism is associated with reduced cortical thickness and cortical volume in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortexwhich may explain impairments in the regulation of emotion.

Most brain imaging research has revealed that narcissism is related to empathy and emotion regulation, and the specific brain regions involved in empathy and emotion regulation.

Researchers at King’s College London have found that muscle fitness as measured by power in the legs is strongly associated with an improved rate of ageing in the brain.

The findings, published in Gerontology, suggest that simple interventions, such as increased levels of walking, targeted to improve leg power in the long term may have an impact on healthy cognitive ageing. The research was funded jointly by the NIHR and the Wellcome Trust.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) are all characterized by clumped, misfolded proteins and inflammation in the brain. In more than 90 percent of cases, physicians and scientists do not know what causes these processes to occur.

Robert P. Friedland, M.D., the Mason C. and Mary D. Rudd Endowed Chair and Professor of Neurology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and a team of researchers have discovered that these processes may be triggered by proteins made by our gut bacteria (the microbiota).

Neurons are deeply connected to the tendency to overindulge in response to external triggers, a problem faced by people addicted to food, alcohol and drugs

Rats that responded to cues for sugar with the speed and excitement of binge-eaters were less motivated for the treat when certain neurons were suppressed, researchers discovered.

Quando si trovano ad affrontare situazioni sgradite come fare i compiti o andare a dormire, oppure discussioni sul tempo consentito per stare davanti alla TV o al PC, i bambini si fanno prendere spesso dalla rabbia o si chiudono a riccio, adottando un comportamento reattivo.