A weekend of burgers, fries and hot dogs will probably have you thinking more about your waistline than your brain, but a new ...

Love to binge on cheeseburgers and fries? Beware, just four days of these fatty foods can rewire the brain's memory hub -- ...

A new study from UNC School of Medicine researchers, published this week in Neuron, reveals a unique look at how junk food ...

Recent groundbreaking research has provided unprecedented insights into the earliest stages of human brain development.Primarily, human brain development is a complex process, particularly ...

"It really adds a new dimension as to how microglia exert their function." The team built on previous work from other research groups to develop their organoids, which resembled a key structure in the ...

While there is a vast amount of information about the human brain and how it develops and works, much of the organ is still uncharted territory. But new research published in the journal Nature is ...

Reversible synaptic plasticity between sensory neurons and interneurons, switching between inhibitory and excitatory, underpins the neural basis of salt concentration memory-dependent preference ...

Dravet syndrome (DS) is one of the most severe childhood epilepsies, characterized by intractable seizures and comorbidities including cognitive and social dysfunction and high premature mortality. DS ...

The research led by the University of North Carolina (UNC) in the US suggests that fatty junk foods can affect the brain ...