In an era of overt sexism in the sciences, she made two major discoveries, including identifying a chemical signal in the ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in ...

Our goal is to provide the highest level of expertise and to treat every patient with the same intensity and care we ...

The idea that people are either “left-brained” and analytical or “right-brained” and creative has become deeply embedded in popular culture. Yet decades of neuroscience research show that this simple ...

The Wiley Foundation honored research into connectomes — detailed atlases of the brain that map out thousands of neurons and the millions of connection between them.

Many people try puzzles or brain-training apps in the hope of keeping their minds sharp as they get older. Now, new research suggests that one particular type of mental exercise could do more than ...

There are vast amounts of brain-training games and apps which claim to fight off cognitive decline, although there has been little high-quality, long-term research proving their effectiveness. — ...

The research conducted a randomized controlled trial, considered the gold standard in medical research. Initiated in the late 1990s, the study enrolled over 2,800 participants aged 65 and older, who ...

A simple brain training task performed for just over a month could reduce dementia risk by as much as a quarter, a world-first study has found. With two million people expected to be living with the ...