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

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

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

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A ...

Top neurologists told Newsweek of natural, science-backed ways to protect your brain from aging and disease—before symptoms ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

During the growing years, physical growth can be measured, but when it comes to mental growth and brainpower, these are ...

Inside the artist’s brain, creativity emerges not as magic, but as a disciplined dance between imagination, emotion and ...

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

The locus coeruleus (LC) — a tiny, ancient brainstem structure that regulates arousal, attention and memory—plays a far more ...