Challenging the brain with new learning, like a new language, may build cognitive reserve and memory confidence.
Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...
For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...
Your brain and your politics go hand in hand. We all know someone —an uncle, a colleague, a childhood friend— who seems to ...
Some people are immune to dementia, even if their brain is deteriorating. Cognitive reserve is the secret boost that builds ...
A separate study also in 2018, this time conducted on mice, found exercising the lower extremities to be critical to brain ...
During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...
New research shows that regular aerobic exercise can lead to a biologically younger brain, adding to evidence of the link ...
"The brain is not fixed—like a muscle, it responds to training and care," Dr. Majid Fotuhi, MD, Ph.D., told Newsweek.
“Functional and purpose-driven foods are intentionally designed or selected to deliver specific physiological benefits, often ...
Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...
The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...