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Social activity can prevent cognitive decline, study finds.
What is going in the teen brain? Quite a bit.
Learning an instrument as a kid could protect against age-related mental decline.
Researchers have discovered the area of the brain associated with embarrassment by studying those who lack it: people with dementia.
A thumbnail-sized brain tissue may explain those rosy cheeks and sweating palms.
Filtering brain cells help focus attention, a task that can be problematic for children with attention deficit disorder.
In study of mice, a female's stress during pregnancy may have prompted changes in her infants' genes that increased the offspring's risk of obesity.
The brains of older adults have more trouble switching between tasks.
Researchers decode the patterns that connect different types of nerve cells.
Brain scans could distinguish liberals from conservatives.
By encouraging biological nerves to grow into silicon tubes, scientists have created a cyborg hybrid that paves the way for the melding of man and machine.
An examination of centuries-old Spanish skulls revealed women's features grew more than men's.
The brains of food addicts respond to the idea of an icy-cold treat the same way that drug addicts respond to drugs, by engaging their brain's reward center.
Participants saw their brains bulge in 2 weeks.
Here's how the noggin captures and stores our insights.
A study of 128 mammals shows that babies’ brains grow bigger with long pregnancy and breastfeeding.
'That hurts' can literally describe social rejection, a brain study finds.
One English brain weathered 2,500 years underground, and scientists want to know how.
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