Huntington's disease is a devastating brain disorder in which decaying nerve cells lead to progressively worsening cognitive ...

Scientists are studying what pregnancy does to the brain and how it does so, shedding light on a long-understudied area of neuroscience.

How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew ...

Your brain’s neuroplasticity could get a boost later in life—thanks to your gut.

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive and permanent loss of nerve cells in the brain. The breakdown causes memory loss, ...

Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...

Your brain is arguably your most valuable asset, but many everyday habits could be secretly undermining its ability to ...

Brain drain is common, but new treatments are working to heal the affliction that is often caused by overwork and ...

Neurodiversity advocates have long argued that autistic brains are differently wired. Now, new evidence shows they are right. Researchers have found atypical numbers of brain cells in two key areas of ...

From regular exercise to social connection, these are the behaviors experts say can keep your brain sharp over time.