The human brain can concurrently support a wide range of advanced mental functions, including attention, memory and the processing of sensory stimuli. While past neuroscience studies have gathered ...

There is a natural decline in sociability as a result of aging influenced by brain changes, new research shows. “Our study suggests that age-related changes in the functional wiring of the brain may ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

Researchers mapped brain-wide astrocyte networks that link distant regions, proving these "support cells" have their own long ...

A mouse pup is born with its hippocampus already buzzing with connections. Not a few tentative links between neighboring ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" to each other. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in ...

Nature heals the soul, but what does it do to the brain? Have you ever been on a camping or hiking trip to a national park ...

The secret to remaining mentally sharp could be as simple as cultivating habits that are beneficial to brain function ...