The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...

Consumers often misinterpreted dietary supplement label language, survey data showed. Labels mentioning "brain health" or ...

A new study reveals that much of the confidence people have in the health benefits of supplements might not come from science ...

From the complexity of neural networks to basic biological functions and structures, the human brain only reluctantly reveals its secrets. Advances in neuro-imaging and molecular biology have only ...

Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This ...

Long working hours may alter the structure of the brain, particularly the areas associated with emotional regulation and executive function, such as working memory and problem solving, suggest the ...

A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in our food consumption ...

The anatomy of your brain reflects your introspective capacity, or ability to self-judge the merits of your decisions, new research indicates. The study found that people with stronger reflective, or ...

When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called “criticality,” this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning smoothly ...

Yihan Wang (left), a Ph.D. student in UW’s Doctoral Neuroscience Program, and Qian-Quan Sun, a UW professor of zoology and physiology, examine a mouse brain image captured with the UW Microscopy ...