A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region. Previous research has ...

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

Top neurologists told Newsweek of natural, science-backed ways to protect your brain from aging and disease—before symptoms ...

“The results showed that individuals who were physically active performed better in these cognitive tests, demonstrating ...

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

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

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 ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...