Pregnancy reshapes the brain more profoundly than scientists ever imagined – and a landmark new study is finally mapping ...

Pregnancy is known to reshape the brain, but new research reveals that these changes do not stop after the first child.

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and ...

A prospective cohort study published in Nature Communications reports that a second pregnancy is associated with distinct structural and functional brain changes on MRI, differing in key ways from ...

Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age. A 10-week study of people 65 or older ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

Can brain training “rewire” the brain to prevent dementia? What about repair the brain following an injury? Or turn back the ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer's disease with nearly 93% accuracy.

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 ...

Neurodegenerative diseases affect more than 57 million people globally. The incidence of these diseases, from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's to ALS and beyond, is expected to double every 20 years. Though ...