In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines last February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain.

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

Microplastics have moved from distant ocean gyres into the most intimate of places: the human brain. A growing body of ...

Synaptic plasticity—the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning—is one of the neural ...

Microplastics could be fueling neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, with a new study highlighting ...

A new study reveals five mechanisms by which microplastics can trigger inflammation and cause damage in the brain.

More than 57 million people worldwide currently live with dementia, and experts say cases are set to rise sharply.

A new study has looked at the links between microplastics and diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in an attempt to ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

A new study has revealed how microplastics can cause inflammation in the brain, fuelling neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

“With recent studies detecting microplastics in human blood, lungs, and even placental tissue, people are understandably ...

New research provides evidence that the brain’s ability to process signals and adapt to new information fluctuates ...