New research by Georgetown scientists shows how the brain rewires itself to automate learned tasks. The findings challenge a ...

New research by Georgetown scientists shows how the brain rewires itself to automate learned tasks. The findings challenge a ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious ...

Brains constantly predict what the eyes will see next, relying on internal feedback networks that physically rewire ...

The outer regions of the brain, the cortex, have specific layers of different cells—neurons—that are similarly ordered among all mammals, from tiny mouse brains to huge elephant brains. However, the ...

The brain may reuse some cells to store many different memories without mixing them up with or erasing older memories, a new study in mice suggests.

Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the ...

Epigenetic aging clocks use DNA methylation patterns to measure biological age and predict health risks across human tissues.

Brain atrophy tends to begin in your 30s and 40s, but certain lifestyle changes can slow or even reverse shrinkage.