“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

The human brain goes through five distinct stages of development during the average human lifetime, with measurable key turning points as we grow, mature, age and decline, new research suggests.

Until the late 20th century, the prevailing view in neuroscience was that, past childhood, humans stop making neurons, brain-wide. What we have in adolescence, is what we get, and all we can do is ...

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never became sick, according to a recent study. Findings demonstrate how cumulative stressors can affect brain ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has announced a new National Institutes of Health study to determine if there is any connection between psychiatric drugs and violence, in the ...

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the ...

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