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Bipolar disorder affects both men and women, but women are more likely to experience bipolar II, and their symptoms may be different. Find out more.

Researchers find that Americans gain around 0.6 kilograms over Christmas, and up to half of this excess weight is likely to remain for the summer months.

When people’s political beliefs are challenged, their brains become active in areas that govern personal identity and emotional responses to threats, neuroscientists have found.

Sounds, such as music and noise, are capable of reliably affecting individuals’ moods and emotions, possibly by regulating brain dopamine, a neurotransmitter strongly involved in emotional behavior…

The secret to reliably diagnosing concussions lies in the brain’s ability to process sound, according to a new study. Widely considered a crisis in professional sports and youth athletic programs, sports-related concussions have had devastating neurolo…

A team of scientists has pioneered new technology that detects in human blood platelets the pathological oligomeric forms of brain tau protein in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, leading toward high relevance fin…

A clump of just a few thousand brain cells, no bigger than a mustard seed, controls the daily ebb and flow of most bodily processes in mammals — sleep/wake cycles, most notably. Now, scientists report direct evidence in mice for how those cell cluster…

A clump of just a few thousand brain cells, no bigger than a mustard seed, controls the daily ebb and flow of most bodily processes in mammals — sleep/wake cycles, most notably. Now, scientists report direct evidence in mice for how those cell cluster…

Cognitive scientists say they have found neurons that help an animal align itself within a cognitive map of its environment. The neurons signal ‘I’m on this line, in this orientation.’

After a traumatic brain injury (TBI), people also experience major sleep problems, including changes in their sleep-wake cycle. A new study shows that recovering from these two conditions occurs in parallel.