A research team has identified genetic factors that influence the shape of subcortical brain regions—far beyond volume measurements. The results could open up new approaches for the early detection of ...

Recently, the team led by Chief Physician Quan Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital systematically evaluated the genetic associations between type 2 ...

The largest neuroimaging study of conduct disorder to date has revealed extensive changes in brain structure among young people with the disorder. The largest difference was a smaller area of the ...

A new study reveals that losing cerebellar perineuronal nets drives autism social deficits by activating the ARNT2 pathway.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At ...

German scientists have found that the composition of bacteria in the gingival pockets is directly related to cognitive abilities, brain volume and the level of inflammation in people without dementia.

There's a quiet irony at the center of modern neuroscience. The more precisely researchers can peer inside the brain, with ...

Despite assumptions about education's positive influence on brain structure, new findings suggest that even an additional year of schooling doesn't leave a lasting neural footprint. Study: No effect ...