Schizophrenia is uncommon even among people who inherit many schizophrenia-associated genetic variants—unless their mothers experienced serious complications during pregnancy.
Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Schizophrenia is uncommon even among people who inherit many schizophrenia-associated genetic variants—unless their mothers experienced serious complications during pregnancy.
Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Pediatrics and neuroscience professor Charles Nelson discusses changes he and his colleagues have observed in the brains of children who spent time in Romanian orphanages.
June 2018. Full story at BrainFacts
Profiles of five investigators appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2018.
Full profiles at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
MRI scans from thousands of individuals link obsessive compulsive disorder to structural abnormalities in brain’s cortex.
Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Synthetic RNA can correct an error in genetic processing that leads to a rare inherited neurodegenerative disorder.
Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tracing autism’s symptoms back to problems in the developing brain could lead to better diagnoses and treatments.
Full story at BrainFacts
More than twenty parts of the brain coordinate motivational, behavioral, and hormonal changes involved in nurturing young animals.
Full story at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
High levels of fats and cholesterol reprogram heart-protective immune cells into cells that can exacerbate atherosclerosis by promoting inflammation.
Full story at La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Artifacts from about 320,000 years ago indicate that early humans had begun replacing technologies and ways of life that had been in place for hundreds of thousands of years.
Full story at Smithsonian