A study reveals our brain development changes at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83.

New research shows that your brain’s “true age” can shift dramatically depending on how you live, with optimism, restorative ...

A new study has found that adolescence can continue until the age of 32, as humans hit four major “turning points” in brain development at the ages of about nine, 32, 66 and 83. Published on Tuesday ...

The human brain is extremely dynamic. The connections between nerve cells change when we learn or forget. But our brain’s computations change even faster than its structure: in a heartbeat, we shift ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

A new study associates some types of shunts used after epilepsy surgery with brains shifting toward the side of the skull. Surgeons who observe persistent fluid buildup after disconnecting epileptic ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

For decades, neurology treated the brain like a black box, nudging it with drugs and hoping symptoms would ease. Now researchers are learning to adjust the brain’s own electrical language with far ...

How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...

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