A new study suggests the APOE2 longevity gene may protect the brain from Alzheimer's by helping neurons repair DNA damage and ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

A large team of scientists, found that a single dose of psilocybin created positive changes in the brain and well-being, one ...

A long-term study found that brain health can improve throughout life with consistent daily habits, cognitive training, and personalized support, regardless of age.

A new study reveals that the brain may continue interpreting language and predicting information even while unconscious under ...

In new research from CMU, Oxford, MIT, and UCLA, having a GPT-powered assistant taken away left people fumbling to solve math ...

A team of Chinese researchers confirmed the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in the living human brain and ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...