Your brain is more superficial than we thought. Scientists from the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, have found that the shape of your brain could strongly influence how you think, feel ...

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

Oxytocin promotes social behaviors and helps maintain relationships. But clinical trials in patients with autism show variability in how consistently oxytocin improves these behaviors. Steve Chang, ...

Scientists are uncovering how the immune and nervous systems constantly “talk” to each other—sometimes with damaging results. In a recent review published in the journal Nature, Harvard Medical School ...

Ever wonder why starting feels harder than finishing? Brain research shows stress can quietly block motivation before action ...

Delores Malaspina, M.D., M.S., MSPH, Director of the Psychosis Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will present this work in an upcoming BBRF-hosted webinar, “The Gut-Brain Axis ...

The link between COVID-19 and respiratory problems is well known, its influence on the brain is the subject of extensive ...

Everyone knows that the brain influences the heart. Stressful thoughts can set the heart pounding, sometimes with such deep force that we worry people can hear it. Anxiety can trigger the irregular ...