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A 2026 Nature Health study found plastic particles in almost every brain sample tested.

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The gut-brain axis refers to the complex communication network linking the digestive system with the central nervous system.

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UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow ...

Summer is winding down and school is back. And all of that has us thinking about this idea that something happens in the ...

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