A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.

GETTING your body moving is a key way to keep dementia at bay. But lowering your risk of the brain-robbing disease might not take as much exercise as you'd think, new research reveals. Weight ...

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Kate Walsh is opening up ... 57-year-old actress recalled being diagnosed with a noncancerous brain tumor in 2015 and shared how the experience changed her approach ...

and traumatic brain injury can cause changes in behavior by altering brain anatomy. Now it seems the coronavirus can too. Photojournalist Jalal Shamsazaran documented his father’s battle with ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...

A recent study mapped the maternal brain from preconception through the crucial two years ... More postpartum, illuminating how the brain reshapes itself during this pivotal life stage.

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

These researchers had already found that nearly 70% of newborn baboons, like human babies, had early asymmetry in the planum temporale(PT)area of the brain. The PT, which is also a key area for ...

By studying the brain anatomy of newborn baby baboons, a research group including several CNRS scientists 1 was able to predict what hand they would use to communicate after they had been weaned.

Netter G. (Metcalfe) Buckingham, affectionately called “Nell” gained her wings on May 27, 2024. She was born in Beaverton, Alabama to the late Alexander and Essie Metcalfe on January 24, 1942.

“Science is showing that, particularly with hands-on, affectionate care, spending time with a child affects a father or a non-biological parent’s hormone levels, shape of the brain, anatomy of ...