If the brain's plumbing doesn't work properly, research shows, cellular garbage accumulates, and a cleaner brain may be a ...

Your brain goes through five distinct life stages as you age, with a massive teenager phase from nine to 32. Scientists at the University of Cambridge's cognition and brain sciences unit have used ...

(Hill Street Studios/Digital Vision/Getty Images) As we get older, our episodic memory – managed by the hippocampus region – ...

The technology to truly understand the human brain is almost here. Within two years, researchers could have working prototypes of a platform that combines artificial intelligence with living brain ...

Experiences—good and bad—shape a person. While some incidents are simply embarrassing moments or blunders that may resurface years later, others leave far more lasting emotional scars. For instance, ...

Brain health isn't determined only by genetics or what happens later in life. A growing body of research shows that a range of factors-from mental health and sleep to environment, lifestyle and social ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...