A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for ...

New findings from Karolinska Institutet reveal how the gene HNRNPU coordinates several fundamental molecular processes during ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf holds up a specialized chip for recording electrical activity in brain organoids. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ...

Researchers tracked more than 2,800 older adults for 20 years to assess whether brain-training exercises could lower the risk of dementia.

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has a unique “connectivity fingerprint” tied to its role in cognition, from ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients develop memory problems, thinking difficulties ...

Children who spent a lot of time on screens before the age of two showed changes in brain development that were later linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety during their teenage years, ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...