Pregnancy reshapes the brain more profoundly than scientists ever imagined – and a landmark new study is finally mapping exactly how.

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A surprising energy imbalance in the brain and blood cells may offer a new way to detect and treat depression earlier.

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In recent years, a drug called ketamine has attracted attention because it can reduce depressive symptoms very quickly. Unlike traditional antidepressants, which may take weeks to work, ketamine can ...

For people antidepressants can’t help, ketamine changes the brain in ways we can now see In A Nutshell For the first time, researchers used a specialized brain scan to watch how ketamine alters a key ...

Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now ...

For one woman, the road to answers ran through five different doctors before anyone thought to look inside her skull. Her ...

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...

Researchers identified three distinct brain “biotypes” of ADHD, each with its own chemical signature—offering new clues about why treatment can feel like trial and error.

Surgeons were stunned when a routine brain biopsy revealed a living, 80mm predator thriving inside a patient’s frontal lobe.