Brain atrophy tends to begin in your 30s and 40s, but certain lifestyle changes can slow or even reverse shrinkage.

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New research from Northwestern Medicine reveals how post-menopausal hormone shifts can weaken the brain’s memory networks.

Motherhood profoundly rewires the brain, causing structural and functional changes that enhance empathy, social cognition, and multitasking abilities. Often lasting decades, these adaptations help ...

Is there anything you can do to improve your own brain function in just a few minutes a day? New research suggests that the ...

A 16-year-old is back in the classroom and taking his GCSEs after missing months of school while being treated for brain ...

The outer regions of the brain, the cortex, have specific layers of different cells—neurons—that are similarly ordered among all mammals, from tiny mouse brains to huge elephant brains. However, the ...

New Duke research helps to answer a long-standing question in neuroscience: Where, exactly, does learning first take place in ...

An important chemical messenger that typically inhibits brain activity might sometimes do the opposite, according to new Yale ...

The mom of a "perfect" 11-year-old girl who died from a brain tumor just 15 days after she first showed symptoms has shared ...

I never questioned my decision not to tell Alessia she had cancer, although sometimes I wonder if she knew what was happening ...