If we can fully map the structure of our brains, will we be able to understand how they work? That is the goal of researchers attempting to build a wiring diagram, or connectome, of our neural ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of organization in the brain by creating the first detailed 3D map of its lipids, ...

Population cohorts combining genetics with multi-organ imaging reveal that brain disorders share a distributed genetic ...

HUMAN curiosity about the workings of the brain dates back at least 46 centuries. The first appearance of the word “brain” is on the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, an Egyptian manuscript dating from ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

What happens in the brain during the earliest stages of schizophrenia? A research group at the University of Seville set out to answer this question using a new MRI-based method that compares the ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...