Our study investigated the brain circuits involved in psychosis-a condition characterized by delusions, hallucinations, ...

A new study investigated the brain circuits involved in psychosis—a condition characterized by delusions, hallucinations, ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a researcher in the ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the ...

Recent evidence indicates that, despite similarities in molecular and gene expression profiles between analogous neurons in the human and rodent neocortex, ...

Scientists have taken a look at the effect dying has on the human brain and what they found is pretty insane. The idea that your brain just stops working when you die couldn't be further from the ...

Every human being is a vast mosaic of cells that ... These mutations—whether in blood, skin or brain—rack up even though the cell’s DNA-copying machinery is exceptionally accurate, and ...