A new scientific statement highlights how mental health, sleep, and the gut microbiome shape brain health from childhood ...

Brain health isn't determined only by genetics or what happens later in life. A growing body of research shows that a range of factors-from mental health and sleep to environment, lifestyle and social ...

Failing to adopt a more inclusive concept of brain health represents a massive loss of human potential,” write Husseini K.

Brain health isn't determined only by genetics or what happens later in life. A growing body of research shows that a range ...

Parents today spend more time with their children than at any point in recent history, yet childhood anxiety and depression ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

The development of the human brain, with its extraordinary range of cognitive abilities, is an awe-inspiring feat of evolution. Each of its tens of billions of cells must be born at precisely the ...

The ‘brain in a jar’ is one of science fiction’s most enduring tropes. Stripped of its body but not of its will, the isolated brain is most often portrayed as a malevolent force, able to impose its ...

Stress and alcohol are frequently framed as cause and effect: You feel overwhelmed, you drink, you calm down. In reality, alcohol may be disabling the very brain systems that would help you respond to ...