New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

Brain swelling, or cerebral edema, is a medical emergency. Learn about the evidence-based treatments doctors use to reduce ...

Illinois engineers fused ultrafast imaging with smart algorithms to peek at living brain chemistry, turning routine MRIs into ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Although it’s too soon to use the new results in the clinic, the test provides advantages over previously reported ‘clocks’ — ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

Brain imaging techniques take advantage of X-rays, radioactive labelling, magnetic fields induced by the brain’s electric activity, or optical absorption or paramagnetic properties of haemoglobin.