Position of regions of interest for DTI-ALPS index calculations on a color-coded fractional anisotropy map. Spherical ROIs (3?mm diameter) were positioned in the projection and association tracts. Dxx: left to right direction, Dyy: anterior to posterior direction, and Dzz: craniocaudal…

What if people who have lost the ability to feel their hands could get that sense back—not through a prosthetic glove, but through tiny pulses of electricity delivered directly to the brain? A decade of work by scientists at the…

Hui Zhang, Ph.D., a research fellow at Einstein. Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes involving decision-making and emotional regulation extending into the…

A University of Virginia study links patterns of brain activity during speech to everyday communication in children with autism, offering new insights into the condition. Credit: Meredith Michael Smith, University Communications Why do some children with autism communicate more easily…

MIT scientists have found that parts of the brain outside of traditional language processing regions also respond selectively to language, including parts of the medial cortex (shown in red). Credit: MIT researchers For decades, neuroscientists have known that specific regions…

Stimulating different parts of the pulvinar activates different brain networks. Left (yellow): Stimulating the outer (lateral) part of the pulvinar primarily activates areas involved in vision. Middle (red): Stimulating the lower middle (ventral-medial) part activates brain regions involved in memory,…

Design and operation principles of the bidirectional thermal stimulation system. Credit: Advanced Science (2026). DOI: 10.1002 A research team led by Professor Il-Joo Cho of Korea University College of Medicine has developed a novel brain implant capable of bidirectionally modulating…

Credit: Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that microglia—the main immune cells of the brain—play a critical role in maintaining the stability of neuronal networks in Alzheimer’s disease. Crucially, this suggests treatments that indiscriminately suppress these cells could be…

A study in Biological Psychiatry demonstrates significantly lower muscarinic M1 receptor availability in schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls with novel PET radiotracer 11C-LSN3172176. Here, 11C-LSN3172176 distribution volume (VT) images from two representative participants (one healthy control, one schizophrenia patient)…

Credit: Pixabay/ Working with concurrent electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging technology at the Beckman Institute’s Biomedical Imaging Center, postdoctoral researcher Suhnyoung Jun and her colleagues have investigated how the brain connectome’s dynamics unfold across different timescales, captured by these…

Credit: Edward Jenner from Pexels For more than two decades, scientists have uncovered remarkable links between the trillions of microbes living in our gut and the health of our brains. This research has transformed our understanding of stress, depression, anxiety…

Individual metabolite quantification and voxel overlap in single-voxel spectroscopy (SVS) ¹HMRS. Credit: Molecular Psychiatry (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41380-026-03705-1 Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, is a plant that contains psychoactive compounds that can temporarily alter people’s brain activity and perceptions. While the…

In progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), tau protein accumulates mainly in deep brain regions, yet patients often experience cognitive and behavioral symptoms. Using brain network mapping, Hori et al. identified a shared neural circuit, termed the PSP-tau network, that links tau-affected…

Credit: Pixabay/ Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be an extremely incapacitating neuropsychiatric condition. The symptoms of people who suffer from OCD can entail washing their hands or showering over and over again, repeatedly checking whether they switched off the gas in…

Credit: Public Domain Scientists at Newcastle University’s Neural Circuits Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Blue Brain Project (EPFL, Switzerland) and leading institutions in Spain, have published a study that advances understanding of the brain’s chemical messengers—acetylcholine, dopamine and…

The same lifestyle choices that reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer can also reduce your risk of cognitive decline. Bryan Woodruff, M.D., a cognitive neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains the brain-body connection, lifestyle changes to…

Researchers assess the connection between sedentary behavior and cancer risk. Credit: yousafbhutta, Pixabay (CC0, ) Each additional hour of prolonged, uninterrupted sedentary behavior in a person’s day is associated with a 9% higher risk of cancer death, according to a…

Move over, Lyme disease—there’s another tick-borne disease to worry about in Canada. Anaplasmosis, the second-most common tick-borne disease in the country, can cause a range of health issues, including myocarditis, as a practice article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal…

Credit: Pixabay/ A pack-a-day smoker can spend around $14,000 a year on cigarettes, yet despite the financial and health costs, quitting remains one of the most difficult changes many people will ever attempt. Now, new research from Adelaide University shows…

Dr. Derek Hao (left) and Associate Professor Ravichandar Babarao with a model of the low-cost material and the precursor material used in the study. Credit: Will Wright, RMIT University Green hydrogen is expected to play a major role in cutting…

The dagger buried with Princess Ita. Credit: Sameh Abdel Mohsen For decades, scientists have disputed the meaning of the weapons found in the burial chambers of some ancient Egyptian princesses. Were they symbolic or practical tools? Now, a reassessment of…

Many fractures are early-warning signs of osteoporosis. Yet in everyday clinical care, they often go unrecognized and undocumented as warning signs, according to a new nationwide Austrian study by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for…

For adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), bofanglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, is associated with more meaningful reductions in hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) levels than semaglutide, according to a study published online June 30 in the Annals of Internal…

CBMI tracked waist-to-height ratio reasonably well overall compared to conventional standards.Credit: Pexels. Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been used in public health and clinical settings as a simple tool to classify an individual’s physical status based on their height…

The scientists used 3D modeling to visualize West Nile Virus infection events in the mouse brain. Credit: Rice lab Picture this: You’re enjoying a summer lunch outdoors, unaware that beneath the table, a hungry mosquito is circling your ankles—until you…

Graphical Abstract. Credit: Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (2026). DOI: 10.1002 The Blood and Tissue Bank is studying how to therapeutically manufacture and use a type of nanoparticles released by the body’s cells to communicate with one another, in one of…

Why do some vaccines protect for a lifetime, while threats like tumors and viruses present such an ongoing challenge? The answer lies in the immune system’s memory and how invading pathogens hack the system. Immune cells have memory, much like…

Credit: Pixabay/ It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key role in determining how the body’s immune system responds to tumors. Researchers at the German Cancer Research…

A human brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease is displayed at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y., on Oct. 7, 2003. Credit: AP Photo/David Duprey, File A blood test may predict if apparently healthy older…

Early-stage pancreatic cancer detection by a blood test. oward the development of a diagnostic system for early-stage pancreatic cancer: A non-invasive, blood-based gene expression test enables the detection of Stage 0 pancreatic cancer (5-year survival rate: 100% at Kanazawa University…

A blood test may help identify which patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver are most likely to benefit from chemotherapy after surgery, according to research presented today at the ESMO Gastrointestinal Cancers Congress 2026. The Phase…

Credit: Pixabay/ A blood test for the biomarker phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217) recently received federal clearance, but questions have emerged about the extent to which such tests can accurately predict whether a cognitively healthy individual will develop cognitive impairment—a key…

Graphical Abstract. Credit: Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (2026). DOI: 10.1002 A collaborative research team has identified a novel blood-based biomarker capable of detecting early-stage lung cancer and predicting patient prognosis. The findings are published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.…

Childhood vaccination rates have slumped globally. In several countries, people are more hesitant about getting vaccinated. Populist political actors promote distrust of government and scientific institutions. And the disinformation economy means we can’t agree on the facts behind policy debates.…

Black African and Black Caribbean women in the UK want clearer and more accessible information about breast cancer screening, according to a study from the University of Surrey. Surrey researchers sought to understand why Black women are less likely to…

Credit: Guillermo Esqueda from Pexels For Black individuals in the United States, being born in another country was associated with a lower risk of stroke, according to a study published in Neurology. “In the United States, people who identify as…

Credit: Mix and Match Studio from Pexels Black and Asian doctors in the UK are up to 30 times less likely to be offered medical training posts in some specialties than white candidates, data published exclusively by The BMJ today…

A new systematic review has found that both the way a baby is born and exposure to antibiotics around the time of birth could be linked to differences in the development of the infant gut microbiome. The review also found…

Several commonly used contraceptive progestogens were associated with higher odds of being diagnosed with meningioma. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Meningiomas are the most common brain tumors in adults, accounting for 38% to 42% of all primary central nervous system tumors. According…

A new study shows that a constructed wetland-derived Clostridium sp. strain T4 efficiently decolorizes the azo dye Reactive Black 5 under anaerobic conditions by reductively cleaving its azo bonds. However, this process generates aromatic amine intermediates, including 1,7-diamino-8-hydroxynaphthalene and 4-(ethylsulfonyl)aniline.…