Scientists have found that when the stomach and brain are synced too strongly, it may signal worse mental health, linking anxiety, depression, and stress to an overactive gut-brain connection. The ...

For years, the brain was considered the sole orchestrator of our mental landscape. However, groundbreaking research has unveiled a powerful and bidirectional communication highway linking our gut to ...

"Brain rot" is the Oxford word of the year for 2024, and it's pretty much what it sounds like: a perceived mental decline from consuming too much online media. If just reading that definition has you ...

A 2024 study outlined 15 risk factors of cognitive decline, concluding that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and ...

Lynne Gauthier receives funding from US Army Soldier Center and has prior funding from PCORI, the American Heart Association, and the National MS Society. Jiabin Shen has received funding from ...

Delhi’s prolonged air pollution crisis is no longer just a lung issue. Doctors warn toxic air may be increasing anxiety, ...

Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Each of our brains is swimming in enough microplastics to form a plastic spoon, scientists discovered earlier this year. Since then, medical researchers have been scrambling to understand how that ...

'You just have more motivation.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. More than 25 years of research on board the International Space ...

Scientists uncover how pregnancy transforms the brain, with gray matter changes that shape maternal instincts and well-being for the long haul. Study: Pregnancy entails a U-shaped trajectory in human ...

On a morning run yesterday – about five miles in – the thought came upon me that I am happiest when my body is in motion. I was alone, running slowly along country lanes and forest tracks, simply ...