Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written ...

Researchers found cells that ‘fired’ in pattern that mirrored mileage clock by ticking along with distance travelled ...

Challenge your mind. Like a muscle, the brain strengthens with use. Mander suggests learning a new language, playing music, doing puzzles or pursuing mentally demanding hobbies to help reinforce ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

Researchers show how fatty foods quickly disrupt memory by blocking neurons’ recycling process, with changes appearing in just seven days.

Fruit fly study shows high-fat diets impair memory in days by jamming the brain’s cleanup system. Damage reversed when cells’ ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism by which nanoplastics impair brain energy metabolism, offering new clues into environmental contributions to neurodegeneration.

College of Pharmacy Professor Jaime Ross has discovered that cognitive decline occurs in a sex-dependent manner, mirroring patterns observed in humans. Tiny fragments of plastic, known as ...

New stem cell–based brain models from UCLA scientists show how a single epilepsy gene variant affects different brain regions ...

That may be about to change. A few days after Ms. McVean woke up in the Foothills Medical Center in Calgary, she was told ...