Being bilingual may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease by up to five years, new research suggests. This adds to a growing body of evidence that speaking multiple languages can contribute to brain ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...

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The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...