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What we ‘see’ in the brain depends on which tool we use to ‘look’ – but each one comes with trade-offs.

Racial threats and slights take a toll on health, but the continual invalidation and questioning of whether those so-called microaggressions exist has an even more insidious effect, research shows.

Researchers have found a new reason to quit smoking. Not only does smoking destroy the heart and lungs, it also shrinks the brain, according to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A new study correlates belly fat in one’s 40s and 50s to an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis later on. It’s not just any fat that’s the culprit. It’s the fat stored deep in the abdomen that’s known as visceral fat — as opposed to subcutaneous fat, which resides just underneath the skin. Researchers have begun unpacking the effects of visceral fat, which surrounds the organs, and have found that ...

The impact includes structural changes in the pre-frontal cortex affecting executive functions like working memory and planning.