A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

Researchers have identified a brain protein whose absence leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice.

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...