Study finds SuperAgers in their 80s and 90s produce twice as many young neurons as healthy adults and 2.5 times more than people with Alzheimer's.

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in ...

Brains of older adults with super-healthy cognition grow more new neurons than those of their peers, according to a study ...

Many people’s brains deteriorate as they age, becoming riddled with malfunctioning proteins that result in cell death and the ...

Unlearning fear responses is a fundamental learning process in the brain. It allows us to flexibly react to formerly ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University recently revealed findings that tie two brain chemicals in bees to learning ability.

Groundbreaking neurocognition research is sharpening the scientific focus on a once little-understood process in early childhood: myelination. As studies reveal how this critical brain mechanism ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...