Eating a combination of two award-winning diets slowed aging in key structures inside the brain by over two years, according ...

An influential hypothesis in neuroscience is that the brain may operate near criticality, a transition zone between ...

Changing the types of fat in your diet might help preserve cognitive health as you age. A new cohort study links substituting saturated animal fats with plant-based vegetable oils to a lower risk of ...

Simple food choices may slow brain aging and protect memory over time. The MIND diet could help keep your brain healthier as you grow older.

A newly published study in Protein and Cell identifies glutamine synthetase, an enzyme concentrated in brain support cells ...

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain cells tied to spatial memory shift and rearrange. That finding, drawn from long ...

Neuroscientist Erik Wing talks us through his new research, which reveals how birding can literally reshape the mind.

New research shows stress impairs direction sense, weakening the brain’s navigation system and making it harder to stay ...

Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration Themes. She receives Royalties from Cambridge University Press for Brain ...

People who develop emotional eating often confess it to be a coping mechanism for boredom, stress, anxiety, and loneliness. Rather than responding to the real-time physical hunger, they eat food to ...

People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday ...

Researchers discover that the brain proactively builds sentence structures during speech using predictive processing, explaining why second-language listening is difficult.