Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...

Esther Kuehn works for the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen. She receives funding from the European Research Council ...

Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to learn and our risk of certain conditions ...

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

The spinal cord is the control cable that connects the brain to the rest of the body. If it is severed, people lose the ability to move their body below the site of the injury. But if it is only ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...

Peter Coppola does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

There’s no part of our body so tethered to our sense of self as our brains. From our brain wiring and structure come our thoughts, our beliefs, our likes and dislikes, and our actions. Even though we ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...