Conventional wisdom holds that younger brains are better equipped to recover from injury. Their greater flexibility allows ...

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New research points to two lifelong strengths that may help protect memory, language, and mental agility later in life.

A rare combination of lifelong cognitive tracking, postmortem brain analysis, and targeted mouse experiments reveals unexpected changes in the cells that maintain the brain’s white matter. Together ...

Scientists’ ability to recapitulate the human brain in a dish has always been hindered by the inability to model the full capacity of the brain and its development through time. In a new study ...

A neuroscientist is challenging the idea that the brain contains a central system that actually “makes” our decisions. What we experience as choosing may instead emerge from the continuous interaction ...

Estriol is a natural form of estrogen that occurs during pregnancy, researchers said in background notes. It has been used in ...

Researchers have grown brain organoids that mirror the development of the human brain for more than five years 1 — and are the longest-lived organs made in a laboratory, so far. Until now, most brain ...

The study, funded by B&S Corporation Co., Ltd., which manufactures and markets scallop plasmalogen, evaluated memory and brain health in 66 Japanese adults, with below-average verbal memory, who took ...

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