When it comes to healthy brain aging, advice usually includes eating well, staying active and maintaining social connections.

Experiments reveal how estrogen enhances dopamine and cognitive function. Hormones are known to have powerful effects on the ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s responsiveness and capacity for learning shift with the time of day, governed by ...

A new McGill-led study reveals that digital brain exercises can rejuvenate aging brain systems responsible for learning and memory. Older adults using BrainHQ for 10 weeks showed restored cholinergic ...

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new software toolbox that allows realistic brain models to be trained directly on data.

Estrogen fine-tunes the brain’s dopamine system, enhancing learning and reward processing across the female cycle while ...

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

New evidence reveals how ultra-processed foods reshape children’s brain development, mood, and attention, highlighting why ...

Some babies are born with early blindness due to dense bilateral congenital cataracts, requiring surgery to restore their ...

A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.