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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

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

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

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

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

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