Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Expert birders show denser brain tissue in attention and visual regions, suggesting the skill may help slow certain aspects ...

“SuperAgers” with superb memories in their 80s and 90s produce more new brain cells than people some 50 years younger, according to a new study.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford University scientists have developed a brain implant designed to "hear" and vocalize words a person with severe paralysis ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age. Members of Alison Preston’s research group study fMRI brain ...

Two Georgetown University Medical Center oncology professors published a new method for treating a lethal brain tumor in a Jan. 7 paper. In a Jan. 7 paper, Dr. Nagi G. Ayad and Dr. Robert K. Suter, ...

A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and expand treatment possibilities for neurological conditions such as epilepsy, spinal cord injury, ALS, stroke, and ...

An article in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances reports that researchers have developed an innovative technique for generating captions from brain activity. Before you mentally review all the ...

The fetal nervous system — i.e., your baby's brain, spinal cord, and nerves — is one of the very first systems to develop. In fact, it's making big strides before you even know you're pregnant. Fetal ...