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An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan — from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult — that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age. The charts ar…

The tool being used to diagnose concussions might be overestimating the condition and wrongly identifying symptoms like fatigue and neck pain caused from intense exercise and not a brain injury, according to researchers. This new research raises new qu…

Researchers have discovered 15 ‘hotspots’ in the genome that either speed up brain aging or slow it down — a finding that could provide new drug targets to resist Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain disorders, as well as developmental del…

They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope.

Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average performance on a foundational measure of reading ability,…

Faces and voices are more likely to be judged as male when they are angry, and as female when they are happy, new research has revealed. The study found that how we understand the emotional expression of a face or voice is heavily influenced by perceiv…

Scientists use brain organoids to understand how a mutated gene affects brain development.

Patients who are most likely to suffer severe pain following an operation can be reliably identified using a new technique.

Scientists presents evidence that adults can generate new brain cells, and that this process is dramatically altered in patients with long-term epilepsy. The study details the presence of newborn neurons and an immature version of a related cell type, …

Clinical awareness of connection between alcohol and dementia is paramount to providing the best patient care management.