Gut microbiota is essential to human health, playing a major role in the bidirectional
communication between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. The …

As the field begins to test the concept of a" preclinical" stage of neurodegenerative disease,
when the pathophysiological process has begun in the brain, but clinical symptoms are not …

Adolescence is a period of formative biological and social transition. Social cognitive
processes involved in navigating increasingly complex and intimate relationships continue …

Recent advances in neuroimaging methods have made accessible new ways of
disentangling the complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors that …

Human brain function undergoes complex transformations across the lifespan. We
employed resting-state functional MRI and graph-theory approaches to systematically chart …

Executive function declines with age, but engaging in aerobic exercise may attenuate
decline. One mechanism by which aerobic exercise may preserve executive function is …

Social cognition provides humans with the necessary skills to understand and interact with
one another. One aspect of social cognition, mentalizing, is associated with a network of …

This study describes psychometric properties of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-
CB) executive function measures in an adult sample. The NIHTB-CB was designed for use …

Growing access to large-scale longitudinal structural neuroimaging data has fundamentally
altered our understanding of cortical development en route to human adulthood, with …

Does accelerated cortical atrophy in aging, especially in areas vulnerable to early
Alzheimer's disease (AD), unequivocally signify neurodegenerative disease or can it be part …