There is a large and growing body of evidence on the health benefits of engagement in
leisure activities (voluntary, enjoyable non-work activities, such as hobbies, arts …

Background: Global population aging poses challenges for healthcare. Digital health
technologies may benefit older adults through enhanced access, monitoring, and self-care …

Parents' stressful experiences can influence an offspring's vulnerability to many pathological
conditions, including psychopathologies, and their effects may even endure for several …

Gene–environment interactions begin at conception to influence maternal/placental/fetal
triads, neonates, and children with short-and long-term effects on brain development. Life …

An interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology (FNN) program over the first 1,000 days
teaches perspectives of the neural exposome that are applicable across the life span. This …

Perceived social support represents an important predictor of healthy aging. The global
COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the face of social relationships and revealed …

Psychological stress is the major risk factor for major depressive disorder. Sustained stress
causes changes in behaviour, brain connectivity and in its cells and organelles. Resilience …

Parental exposure to stress or glucocorticoids either before or during pregnancy can have
profound influences on neurodevelopment, neuroendocrine function and behaviours in …

Endocrine, nervous, and immune systems work coordinately to maintain the global
homeostasis of the organism. They show sex differences in their functions that, in turn …

The brain is one of the most prominent examples for structural and functional differences
between the left and right half of the body. For handedness and language lateralization, the …