During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a ...

The last turning point comes around age 83. The data for this final era is more limited, but the defining feature is a shift ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...

In the Living Brain Project, researchers leveraged deep brain stimulation surgeries to compare the brains of the living to those of the dead.

The Living Brain Project showed that live brain samples from patients undergoing deep brain stimulation revealed differences ...

Scientists using living human brain tissue have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s can stick to and damage the connections between brain cells. Small pieces ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

Vedantam, a veteran science reporter, joins WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to explore how unseen mental forces shape our choices, and why the show continues to resonate with listeners.

A team of researchers used a massive dance video dataset and advanced AI models to map how the human brain interprets dance, revealing striking differences between experts and nonexperts.