Severe depression, loneliness, and adversity may increase the risk of cognitive decline and dementia later in life.

An expert breaks down how listening to and creating music can benefit your brain, on this episode of the Big Brains podcast.

There's a link between a blood condition called clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP, and protection against Alzheimer’s.

New research on CTE finds that the force of hits was critical in whether former football players developed the brain disease later in life.

Astronauts should wait at least three years after longer missions to give their brains time to recover, a new study suggests.

New finding in mice are a step closer to finding a possible target for treating neuropsychiatric disorders in young adulthood.

A newly-developed nanoparticle offers a more effective way to deliver a chemotherapy drug to fast growing, aggressive brain tumors.

The brain circuitry that helps us form habits is connected to binge eating disorders, according to new research.

Prenatal exposure to opioids affects the development of important circuits in the brain and spinal cord that control breathing.

New research finds features of early human brain development in the brains of marsupials called fat-tailed dunnarts.