A large brain imaging trial suggests that regular weight training may slow how quickly the brain appears to age in older ...

A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry provides evidence that experiencing abuse or neglect during childhood is ...

What if individual variations in brain structure could predict a young person’s tendency towards impulsive behaviors, offering early insights into mental health risks? New research from scientists at ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Cannabis and tobacco—whether used on their own or together—can affect the brain's structure. A recent study involving ...

After a stroke, the brain may do something surprisingly hopeful—it can “refresh” parts of itself. Researchers analyzing brain scans from over 500 stroke survivors found that while the damaged side of ...

While we've known for some time that obesity affects the brain, scientists have found that, more importantly, it's where you carry it that matters. And it's the deep visceral fat around organs that ...

In a new study published in The Lancet Digital Health, scientists at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and ...

Researchers found that expert birders show structural differences in areas linked to attention and perception.

An adult specimen of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi seen from above. In the center of the image, it is possible to ...

When you're stressed at work, your brain doesn't want complexity; it wants a simple mental lifeline like "cognitive chunking" ...