What if your high blood pressure isn't just about what you eat or how much you exercise—but something happening deep inside ...

Experts say IBS and anxiety may be deeply connected through a powerful gut-brain loop that millions still misunderstand.

Scientists used a tool called SynTrogo to edit brain circuits in mice, showing that trimming select synapses can make ...

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, ...

The latest review evidence shows the gut and brain communicate in complex, two-way ways, making it hard to know which comes first. Experiments in animals, changes in psychiatric drug effects, and ...

Leigh Weddle, PharmD, is a board-certified pharmacist specializing in medication therapy management based in Kansas City, Missouri. She also has expertise in chronic disease management, microbiome and ...

Stress resilience isn’t a flatline. It’s a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne ...

A large-scale study of 5216 brains has found differences in the brains of men and women that might be linked to social and other abilities. Stuart Ritchie and coworkers reported in the 2018 journal ...

Humans are social beings, and it shouldn’t be surprising that there are specific groups of nerve cells in the brain that are directly influenced by social experiences. One important mechanism ...

When it comes to physical fitness, most people over 50 ignore giving their brains a workout. Unfortunately, our daily ...

The brain knows exactly when a person might be craving a connection of any kind, and there are certain things it only does ...