Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Gifu University scientists have uncovered how a brain-specific enzyme reshapes protein-linked sugar chains to facilitate the ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

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 study of nearly 10,000 adolescents funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared ...

A new comprehensive analysis has revealed that major depressive disorder alters both the physical architecture and the ...

Menopause is linked to a loss in gray matter volume, a new study suggests, which may explain why so many older women ...