A significant, long-term reduction in calorie consumption resulted in a slowing of aging in the brain, according to a study ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Our brains have to do a lot of work when we watch a movie. There are plots to follow, dialogue to interpret, visuals to take in, and more. Now, scientists have created a detailed map of how the human ...

Fasting has long been sold as a shortcut to weight loss, but a growing body of research suggests the real action may be ...

To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help. Researchers have learned an enormous amount about how we think, what drives our behaviors, and why we feel the way we do ...