Firstly, the current normative brain references are primarily derived from Western populations. However, the distinctive ...

Healthy aging induces parallel changes in brain functional activity and structural morphology, yet the interplay between ...

The brain changes as we age – but a new study pinpoints exactly when those shifts occur. Our brain structure moves through five distinct phases marked by four turning points, at ages nine, 32, 66, and ...

What happens in the brain during the earliest stages of schizophrenia? A research group at the University of Seville set out to answer this question using a new MRI-based method that compares the ...

Mental illness is often described in abstract terms, but is rooted in the brain. A study reveals that genes influencing ...

Imagine the brain as an atlas of possibilities and risks. Genetic variants linked to depression affect its shape, subtly ...

A new study finds that brain changes are not a steady progression; instead, distinct neural rewiring occurs around ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. A new study of brain MRIs has pinpointed four major turning ...

Young people diagnosed with four common psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, depression and ADHD and conduct disorder, share “strikingly similar” structural changes in the brain, according to a ...