Is she “crazy,” or is her gray matter just being compressed? Neuroscientists in Spain have found a connection between ...

But a recent study - the largest to date - indicates that pregnancy has a profound structural impact on brains and offers new clues into the neurological changes in mums‑to‑be. It suggests that grey ...

A prospective cohort study published in Nature Communications reports that a second pregnancy is associated with distinct structural and functional brain changes on MRI, differing in key ways from ...

(Oscar Wong/Moment/Getty Images) A second pregnancy alters the brain in distinctive ways that are not simply a repeat of the first, new research shows. Compared with women having their first child and ...

“Sciences have historically ignored women’s health,” says the lead researcher, as a possible explanation for why the scan had never been done before LWA/Getty; Nature Neuroscience For the first time, ...

Menopause brain fog is driven by hormonal shifts, not just age. Learn how your brain structure changes during the climacteric ...

Alzheimer’s disease (Alzheimer’s) is conceptualized as a progressive consequence of two hallmark pathological changes in gray matter, in particular, extracellular amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary ...

There are many ways to boost brain power, from exercising more often to learning new skills. But what about boosting the actual size of your brain? According to a new study, wearing the right kind of ...

Pregnant women’s brains shed grey matter to prepare for motherhood, study suggests - The bigger the changes in the brain, the ...