Developmental psychologist Janis Whitlock says putting limitations on teen social media use can help combat the addictive ...

Microscopic plastic shards and fibers have been found in nearly every organ in the human body ... to make their way to other parts of the brain, researchers said. Early findings in a study ...

A wedding photographer decided to stay home when her first was born. She struggled to rebuild her business and then had a ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Whether these ubiquitous pollutants can reach the human brain has been a primary concern for scientists. The latest research looked at a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb, which ...

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Scientists believe your primary visual cortex, located in the back of your brain, is involved in internal visualization. This ...

Researchers in Professor Emily Jacobs' lab at UC Santa Barbara have shed light on this understudied area with the first-ever map of a human brain over the course of pregnancy. "We wanted to look ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the ...

Dynamic CpG methylation “barcodes” were read from 15,000 to 21,000 single cells from three human male brains. To overcome sparse sequencing coverage ... Related inhibitory and excitatory neurons can ...

The human body undergoes profound ... who had snapshots of her brain taken before, during, and after pregnancy. As the pregnancy advanced, researchers noticed a widespread shrinking of gray matter, ...