Pollution has long been indirectly linked with dementia. Now scientists wonder if it may be physically reshaping the brain.

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

New research from scientists at the University of Arizona challenges a common assumption about older brains.

Scientists discovered that the thick, sticky fluid surrounding glioblastoma tumors can make brain cancer cells smaller, more ...

Scientists have mapped one of the most mysterious parts of the human brain in unprecedented detail 1. Their results detail ...

Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients.

A tiny region deep within the brain has surprised scientists by revealing a remarkably sophisticated communication system.

Medications commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may help reduce certain symptoms of ...

Squishy, wrinkled, weighing about as much as a cantaloupe, the brain may not be much to look at from the outside. Yet with a ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

New neuroimaging research presented at the FENS Forum 2026 in Barcelona shows that speaking two, three, or four languages makes the human brain appear six, seven, and 13 years biologically younger ...

Learn more about the shared neural code the brain uses to recognize emotions in different ways.