For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big ...

Older adults with exceptional memories continue to grow new brain cells. A recent study published in the journal Nature shows ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Study argues to move beyond ‘reading genes’ — focus on conserved neural-development networks in humans to improve early screening and identify therapeutic leads.

In the interdisciplinary fields of cognitive neuroscience, health psychology, and clinical medicine, the examination of music interventions offers a ...

When Brantley Hall opened enrollment for his Human Flatus Atlas project to measure how much wind people break in a day, he expected a few dozen takers. They filled their roster in a few days with ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, more than you might think. Their findings, published in Science Advances on ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors ...

The McKinsey Health Institute and the World Economic Forum recently released a landmark report, The Human Advantage: Stronger ...

Women are more likely than men to develop PTSD. Social factors and trauma type play important roles. But researchers have long wondered about the role of biology.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of ...