A groundbreaking study has revealed critical insights into the brain structure variations associated with psychopathy, a condition recognized as a significant predictor of chronic violent behavior.

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Psychiatry has long relied on the brain as both an explanatory model and a source of legitimacy, yet the persistence of this reference cannot be reduced to the progress of neuroscience. This ...

A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their ...

Psychotherapy leads to measurable changes in brain structure. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the University of Münster have demonstrated this for the first time in ...

A carotid dissection is a tear in one of your carotid arteries. These are a set of paired arteries at the sides of your neck. These arteries supply blood to your brain. The first portion of each ...

Even though the terms brain plasticity and neuroplasticity are associated with late 20th- and now 21st-century scientific and medical thinking, the concept of brain plasticity has been known (although ...

Pre-existing differences in brain structure are associated with earlier substance use in young people, according to a recent study. The research informs our limited understanding of the complexity of ...