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

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

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

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: ...

Some serious brain disorders begin with symptoms that are easy to misinterpret. A person may become confused, forgetful or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

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