By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category ...

Why do some people age better than others? Five extraordinary individuals – who scientists are studying – share their tips ...

Adolescence may be far more than a period of pruning away unused brain connections. New research suggests the teenage brain ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Humans evolved a stress response to cope with imminent threats. But in the modern world, that same system can lead to chronic anxiety and depression. Now, a team of scientists at the University of ...

Scientists uncover new synapse hotspots in the teen brain, challenging the old theory of synaptic pruning and its link to schizophrenia.

Science says LOLs matter more than you think.

Huntington's disease is caused by an inherited genetic change that causes production of an altered protein. This leads to nerve damage in areas of the brain that control movement and thinking.

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...