This image, created by a specialized form of MRI called diffusion tensor imaging, shows white matter tracts (colored lines) in one corner of the brain. White matter tracts connect brain regions so ...

Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency -- slow and choppy reading -- may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers at Children's Hospital ...

A new study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex provides evidence that differences in general intelligence may be partly explained by the density of neurites within certain brain connections, and ...

A new study shows that the experience of racial discrimination affects the microstructure of the brain, as well as increasing the risk for health disorders. Racial discrimination increases the risk ...

Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception. A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck around ...

A severely paralyzed man has been able to communicate using a new type of technology that translates signals from his brain to his vocal tract directly into words that appear on a screen. Developed by ...

—People with late-life vision impairment, specifically from AMD, are at higher risk of subsequent cognitive decline. These investigators from Duke University explain what they’re learning about this ...

Racial discrimination increases the risk for physical and mental illnesses, and Black women suffer from diseases at significantly higher rates than White women. How traumatic experiences such as ...