A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

“SuperAgers” with superb memories in their 80s and 90s produce more new brain cells than people some 50 years younger, according to a new study.

The brain changes as we age – but a new study pinpoints exactly when those shifts occur. Our brain structure moves through five distinct phases marked by four turning points, at ages nine, 32, 66, and ...

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrating that brain development is not as linear ...

Brain age reveals measurable psychiatric differences, offering clinicians a promising biomarker to improve personalised mental health care.

Other healthy diets also lowered the risk of brain decline by 24%, to 11%, the study found. Vegetables, fruits, fish, wine, ...

We have long believed that brain growth stops and aging begins once we pass the age of 20. However, a study by British university researchers analyzing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data has ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...