New research analyzed brain imaging information with clinical evaluation to derive six brain-based psychopathology dimensions ...

In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

Tiny, shallow grooves on the surface of the brain may provide new insight into how aging and Alzheimer’s disease affect brain ...

Hearing loss accelerates brain aging and triples dementia risk by rewiring the brain and creating cognitive overload. Early ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

To determine which brain areas are necessary for a certain ability, ... This approach, known as ‘lesion-deficit mapping’, is the most powerful method for localising function in the human brain.

The brain's overall size begins to shrink when you’re in your 30s or 40s, and the rate of shrinkage increases once you reach age 60. Brain shrinkage doesn’t happen to all areas of the brain at ...