A diet focused on the best foods for brain health slowed aging in key parts of the brain by over 2 years, a new study found.

(PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Research suggests you can keep your brain sharp into old age by learning languages ...

A research team has identified genetic factors that influence the shape of subcortical brain regions—far beyond volume measurements. The results could open up new approaches for the early detection of ...

How can a brain as sophisticated as ours arise from a single cell? This question, long at the heart of neuroscience research, is based on a fundamental principle: each neuron must position ...

Boost your brain health with six science‑backed habits from sleep and exercise to nutrition and social connection that will enhance memory, mood, and cognitive vitality.

“Our brains are very malleable,” lead researcher Erik Wing, a research associate at York University in Toronto, explained. Wait, what exactly is neuroplasticity? Neuroplasticity is basically the ...

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 ...

Millions of women go through pregnancy every year, yet science has only just begun to look at what it does to the brain—the ...

Researchers have found that the size of the amygdala—a region of the brain involved in processing emotions—could be linked to ...

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 ...