Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

There is no magical switch that turns on at age 25, or even 32 for that matter. Like your brain, you’re in a decades-long ...

The complex human brain controls who we are: how we think, feel, and act. It gives meaning to our world and our place in it. The brain also controls all major body functions. The brain is housed in ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

Educational attainment is linked to reduced white matter hyperintensity burden in older adults, with vascular risk factors serving as a key mediator.

The phrase “left and right brain” refers to the anatomical halves, or hemispheres, of your brain. It’s popularly believed that the left and right hemispheres are distinct, controlling separate aspects ...

Kaylee Dixon, complete with a brain cap, finishes icing a cake in different colors to represent the different lobes of the brain during one of many hands-on labs for middle and high school students at ...

Lower cardiac output has been tied to poorer cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the temporal lobes of older adults without heart failure, a finding that adds to a growing body of research linking heart ...