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

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

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 ...

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

People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, ...

Recent research found that ultra-processed food permanently alters the brain’s ability to control appetite. But there’s also a healthy gut response—literally.

Eating too much junk food early in life may rewire the brain in ways that last into adulthood, even after switching to a ...

All of these activities may help keep your brain in good shape. But increasingly, research is finding another lifestyle habit that should be at the top of your list: putting brain-healthy foods on ...

Users report that seconds stretch into eternity, sounds turn into color, and you very self begins dissolving. And now, after ...

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

Scientists have uncovered evidence that serotonin — the same brain chemical boosted by many antidepressants — may actually ...

Parkinson's disease is often treated as a single disorder. But for the more than 1.1 million people living with it in the ...