If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial ...

New research for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...

The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled millions of cells to chart a cellular ...

The first few hours after waking up helps build momentum for the rest of the day, offering a sense of purpose and structure ...