Like Dr. Seuss once said, “There are so many things you can learn about, but you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” That’s why, no matter what your age is, you should never stop ...

A large-scale Canadian study has found that older adults who sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBI) face a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, needing home care, or being admitted to ...

It’s time for another brain exercise session, dear Pandas. Strengthening our mental muscles improves memory, focus, concentration, and creativity. Meanwhile, keeping these cognitive functions in ...

A new study shows that high-intensity training (HIT) could protect cognitive health in older adults for up to five years.

For more than a decade, there’s been growing proof that adult humans can form new neurons in the hippocampus, but scientists were still missing evidence of a missing link known as “neural progenitor ...

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...

Whether or not we grow new brain cells as adults has been the subject of an ongoing and often contentious debate. Now, evidence suggests that we can. This could help answer one of neuroscience’s most ...

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Researchers mapped all 139,255 neurons in the brain of an adult fruit fly, which are linked by more than 50 million synapses. Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University, (Dorkenwald, S. et al.

These findings should encourage teachers and parents to give children many opportunities to acquire new skills, whether that's mastering math facts ... to adults." Future research should examine ...