Playing certain brain-training games may boost production of a neurotransmitter responsible for attention and focus, ...

Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

False-colour positron emission tomography (PET) scan highlighting limbic areas in a human brain. A receptor for the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA is visualised here in regions of the brain ...

Findings from the first study directly examining gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentrations in the brains of children with ADHD were published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry. In ...

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

More Americans than ever are turning to spiritual, meditative and religious retreats as a way to reset their daily life and enhance wellbeing. Now, researchers at The Marcus Institute of Integrative ...

New research suggests that socialising could help to reduce the risk of frailty later in life.Researchers from Newcastle University examined data on more than 2,000 men over the age of 65 who were ...

Early research suggests a brain test may predict whether antidepressants will cause sexual dysfunction. There has never been ...