Mini-brains' grown in the lab allow scientists to study brain wiring without interfering with brains in living people, and ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

Precise changes in the connectivity between neurons caused by an imbalance of gut bacteria may help explain depressive ...

Bipolar disorder, also known as "manic-depressive illness," a brain disorder known to have afflicted the famous painter Vincent van Gogh, is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania and depression ...

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, reports that abnormal sequences of DNA known as rare copy number variants, or ...