A new study from the University of Southern California suggests that the way blood pressure fluctuates from one heartbeat to the next may be just as important as the overall blood pressure reading — ...
The question of whether adult brains grow new brain cells has been debated for more than 60 years. Known as "neurogenesis", this process has been observed in the brain of other adult animals, yet its ...
Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.
The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...
CAMBRIDGE, UK — The human brain doesn't simply grow and then decline. Instead, it moves through five distinct structural phases over a lifetime, separated by four major turning points at ages 9, 32, ...