Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

A sweeping new analysis of more than 4,000 brain scans reveals that our brains’ neural networks don’t simply mature and then decline; they reorganize through a series of distinct life-stage “epochs,” ...

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

A new Genomic Press Interview with Prof. Dr. Paul Lucassen shares insights from his research spanning 30 years in which he ...

The human brain communicates within itself and with the rest of the body mainly through electrical signals; sights, sounds and sensations are all converted into electrical pulses before our brains can ...

In a revelatory Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Paul Lucassen, full professor at the University of Amsterdam and leader of the Brain Plasticity group, shares his ...

Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. One is as a brilliant, if arrogant, boffin. These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all) who have very ...