When we’re young, our brains retain neuroplasticity as they grow and adapt, a useful attribute that slowly degrades as we age ...

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How does the brain think? – Tom, age 16, San ...

A recent study of 4,000 adults recently found that your brain health can improve well into your 80s.

Whether it’s braving the long line at a trendy new restaurant or hanging on just a few minutes longer to see if there’s a post-credits scene after a movie, the decision to persevere or ditch it ...

Community educator Dr. Laura Garrett says healthy habits throughout life can help lower dementia risk and support long-term brain health ...

The brain will try to create a world in which it can function. If it is to survive, it will build its functions "in a new environment." It will compensate for everything it can and learn everything it ...

Well, for one thing, one study showed that if you take ballroom dance classes and continue for a year, parts of the brain that are important for coordination and planning increase and the size of the ...

Despite all that old talk about Mars and Venus, men and women are much more biologically alike than not. But differences in the way our brains are built shed light on everything from the way we flirt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we are angry, our emotional brain goes into overdrive, and we act first rather than think first. (Ekaterina Goncharova via ...

Can Meditation Make Your Brain Younger? Way beyond stress reduction, meditation has the quiet power to defy aging of the brain. By Balachundhar Subramaniam, M.D. Aging is unavoidable. None of us can ...