Older adults with exceptional memories continue to grow new brain cells. A recent study published in the journal Nature shows that this biological process nearly stops in people with Alzheimer's ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

Since then, Karl Rössler, a neurosurgeon at the Medical University of Vienna, has been sending small spoonfuls of live human brain tissue—removed during epilepsy surgeries—to Watson, a postdoctoral ...

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

The brain has five major structural phases during the human lifespan and doesn't reach adulthood until age 32, a new study suggests. Scientists determined that brain development is defined by four ...