A new human study suggests that extra virgin olive oil may support brain health by influencing the gut microbiome.

A communication pathway between the brain and the gut may be integral to how well the brain holds on to memories ...

Researchers found that very small numbers of gut bacteria can translocate to the brain in mice, particularly when gut barrier ...

Millions of women go through pregnancy every year, yet science has only just begun to look at what it does to the brain—the ...

Microglia (immune cells) and the RANK protein are essential for triggering puberty and maintaining fertility in the brain.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have created the first high-resolution molecular atlas of the adult Drosophila ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh. In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may ...

Researchers identified in mice a microbiome–gut–brain pathway in which age-associated changes in gut microbes increase medium-chain fatty acids that impair vagal sensory signaling and hippocampal ...