Marathon running causes a temporary decline in brain myelin content, but levels return to normal within two months. This ...

Examination of the subject's anatomical brain structure showed dramatic loss of gray matter volume over the course of pregnancy, while white matter tracts showed increases.

In a nutshell Lifting weights twice a week helped older adults with mild cognitive impairment maintain memory performance, ...

Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend ...

In a nutshell Being symptom-free doesn’t mean the brain has fully healed. Even after athletes are medically cleared to return ...

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome causes memory changes and other neurological symptoms. Learn why it’s underdiagnosed and more ...

Dysregulation of this process can impair the brain's ability to process information efficiently, contributing to conditions like multiple sclerosis and other white matter diseases.

Synaptic pruning is a crucial neurodevelopmental process through which the brain refines its neural circuitry by systematically eliminating excess or weak synaptic connections. During early ...

What if brain scans could help detect autism earlier and more precisely? A new study led by researchers at the University of Fukui, and published in NeuroImage, investigates how white matter ...

Different approaches to gray and white matter measurements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been studied. For clinical use, the estimated values must be reliable and accurate when ...

Mapping the density, molecular features and energy-transformation capacity of cell organelles called mitochondria in the brain reveals region- and cell-type-specific variability that tracks with ...