Scientists have produced the first quantitative map of the human uncinate fasciculus, a white matter tract linking brain regions involved in decision-making and emotion. Using an advanced optical ...

Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds. Emmanouela Kosteletou-Kassotaki and colleagues, from the University of ...

Scientists have identified a protective brain pathway that may help slow the progression of Parkinson's disease by strengthening the brain's own dopamine-producing neurons, but the positive effect was ...

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

A new study reveals how age-related microbiome shifts can disrupt gut–brain signaling, uncovering a microbial pathway that may accelerate memory decline during aging. Study: Intestinal interoceptive ...

Implications for Diabetes Treatment and Brain Health Although most diabetes medications do not target the brain, this research shows that metformin has been influencing brain pathways all along.

In recent years scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has prompted a new and perplexing question: how can so many different genes ...