These changes aren’t permanent – the brain goes gradually back to normal after coming back to Earth. Understanding the ...

For most young children, the sight and voice of a parent serve as a primary source of comfort and safety. A new study ...

There's one 'very important' way to support your cognitive health.

Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can still influence these processes.

Menopause reshapes the brain in surprising ways — but it may also reveal the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt.

Investigating sex-specific factors could lead to more targeted therapies and better understanding of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.

Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have discovered that a second pregnancy alters the female brain. Previous research from the same group had already demonstrated the impact of a first pregnancy on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brain’s structure changes in spurts, according to a new study. In the study, they compared the brains of 3,802 people between ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...

Have you ever heard or read a word that’s either new to you or that you’ve not encountered, and suddenly it starts cropping up everywhere? This is true for me with the word neuroplasticity. It ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used a light-based brain imaging technique in mice to watch, in real time, what happens in the ...