Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz have just taken a huge step in the long history of lab-cultured ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in ...

A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

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

Consuming a diet heavy in fat and sugar during childhood can permanently alter how the brain regulates appetite later in life ...

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 ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

Neuroscientists discover that Rett syndrome mutations cause a leaky brain via overexpressed miRNA-126-3p, pointing to a new therapeutic target for vascular repair.

Many people’s brains deteriorate as they age, becoming riddled with malfunctioning proteins that result in cell death and the ...

As we age, neuron production declines in the human brain, but scientists just identified the protein key to regenerating neural stem cells.

There is strong evidence connecting cannabis use during pregnancy to harmful effects on a child’s brain development, including a higher risk of schizophrenia.