A cortisol dose scrambled the brain’s built-in navigation system in an MRI experiment.

Dr. Sandra Darling, a Cleveland Clinic preventative medicine physician, says chronic stress releases the hormone cortisol, ...

If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...

Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS. Researchers found that cortisol, a hormone released during stress, made people significantly worse at navigating a virtual environment and ...

Patients with depression are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, and a new study suggests that stress may help explain why. Research from Mass General Brigham suggests that this increased risk ...

A recent review of 49 brain imaging studies reveals that COVID-19 is associated with widespread structural and functional ...