With a new year, a healthier brain can boost your happiness and career success in 2026, plus offset brain diseases, if you ...

When we learn a new skill, our brain forms new connections between the neurons. The more we do the new skill, the stronger ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Cognitive decline is natural: it starts to subtly set in by our 40s, and by your mid-50s it’s perfectly normal to find ...

Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides significant ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...

For decades, higher education has relied on a familiar model: expert-led lectures, content-heavy curricula and assessments designed to measure recall. While this approach has produced graduates with ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

Discover why traditional, screen-free pastimes are surging in popularity and how the right combination of three specific ...