Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious neurodegenerative disease largely affecting older adults. Apart from age, it also shows sex-based differences, with women being more at risk. However, the origin ...

Every year, millions of infants and children undergo surgery under general anesthesia in the world. Sevoflurane is a commonly ...

Recent research has identified a specific biological mechanism that may explain why females experience more severe ...

Researchers have identified a brain protein whose absence leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice.

This study in neonatal rats revealed that the common inhaled pediatric anesthetic, sevoflurane, impairs neurogenesis and ...

Figure 1: Adult-generated neurons are involved in trace but not in delay conditioning. Figure 3: Reduction of adult-generated granule cells in the hippocampus does not affect neurophysiological ...

Robust new research, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, is reporting on several years of animal studies showing how a psychedelic drug called dimethyltryptamine (DMT) can promote brain ...

The human brain is much more flexible than we ever thought. New studies have begun to suggest that, even in adulthood, the ...

Mental illness is debilitating not only to those afflicted with various disorders but to mankind as a whole. It has been estimated that 26% of the adult population have a diagnosable mental disorder ...

A previously unknown mechanism has been discovered that is highly conserved between species and which regulates neurogenesis through precise temporal control of the activity of a family of proteins ...

A staggering 280 million people suffer with depression worldwide, reports the World Health Organization, and many experience debilitating symptoms that are not effectively treated by currently ...