Top neurologists told Newsweek of natural, science-backed ways to protect your brain from aging and disease—before symptoms ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Every day, the brain is flooded with fleeting impressions, yet only a small fraction hardens into the stories we carry for a ...

A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research ...

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...

The black box of the human brain is starting to open. Although animal models are instrumental in shaping our understanding of the mammalian brain, scarce human data is uncovering important ...

The human brain, despite representing only about 2% of total body weight, consumes approximately 20% of the body’s energy resources. This metabolic intensity makes the brain particularly responsive to ...

“The results showed that individuals who were physically active performed better in these cognitive tests, demonstrating ...

Regrowing the human brain is no longer science fiction. Johns Hopkins engineer Annie Kathuria discusses her TEDx vision for ...