Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Some people are immune to dementia, even if their brain is deteriorating. Cognitive reserve is the secret boost that builds ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how ...

A new study suggests that a little-known region deep in the brain could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age ...

New findings based on more than 10,000 MRI scans have shed light on how structural brain changes are tied to memory decline ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Exercise made 40-year-olds' brains look younger in 12 months, but the biological mystery remains: fitness gains didn't ...

Astronauts' brains shift position after spaceflight, study in PNAS finds. Changes linked to time in space may impact health ...