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

“SuperAgers” with superb memories in their 80s and 90s produce more new brain cells than people some 50 years younger, ...

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 ...

Santa Barbara City College’s School of Extended Learning offers tuition-free classes designed for adults 55 and older that promote lifelong learning, social connection, and overall well-being through ...

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

A protein reinforces the blood–brain barrier, which becomes leaky with age. Exercise prevents brain ageing and memory loss by strengthening the blood–brain barrier, the structure that keeps harmful ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Brains of older adults with super healthy cognition grow more new neurons than those of their peers, according to a study from UIC, Northwestern University and the University of Washington.