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That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

When Dr. Majid Fotuhi wrote his first book, 2002's The Memory Cure, he wanted to give it the subtitle "How to Prevent ...

Lizzie Pitt was originally told brain tumour was benign before she was given a terminal diagnosis.

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A mother who was diagnosed with a brain tumour during pregnancy says it was a "complete shock" and the most frightening time of her life. Stephanie Hillard, 50 from Axbridge in Somerset, first ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a mechanism that could explain how exercise improves cognition by shoring up ...

Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can still influence these processes.

A new study that followed participants for two decades found some were up to a quarter less likely to develop a memory ...

Recent research reveals we dip into a sleeplike state as our brains flush out waste buildup.