Experts say IBS and anxiety may be deeply connected through a powerful gut-brain loop that millions still misunderstand.

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major implications for diagnoses and treatment ...

Recent preclinical advances expose how the gut microbiome impacts the maintenance of brain health through the microbiota–gut–brain axis.

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

When it comes to physical fitness, most people over 50 ignore giving their brains a workout. Unfortunately, our daily ...

Stress resilience isn’t a flatline. It’s a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne ...

A large-scale study of 5216 brains has found differences in the brains of men and women that might be linked to social and other abilities. Stuart Ritchie and coworkers reported in the 2018 journal ...

Humans are social beings, and it shouldn’t be surprising that there are specific groups of nerve cells in the brain that are directly influenced by social experiences. One important mechanism ...

The cerebellum, a part of the brain traditionally associated with balance and movement, is also important for more complex ...

The brain knows exactly when a person might be craving a connection of any kind, and there are certain things it only does ...

The largest analysis of psychedelic brain imaging to date offers a clearer picture of how psychedelic drugs affect the brain.