A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this process possible. Among the discoveries is PEDS1, a gene now linked to a ...

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder groups sharing DNA patterns.

Synaptic plasticity - the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning - is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Review of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders – And How We Can Change That. By Nicole Rust. Princeton University Press. More than a billion people around the world suffer ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

About 20% to 35% of the population suffers from chronic sleep disorders—and up to half of all people in older age. Moreover, almost every teenager or adult has experienced short-term sleep deprivation ...

In an exciting scientific first, researchers at the Allen Institute successfully designed a new gene therapy that reversed symptoms related to SYNGAP1-related disorders (SRD) in mice. These are a ...