An adult human brain can contain about a spoon’s worth of microplastics and nanoplastics, recent research found—not a ...

Nothing in life comes free, not even a sugar-free drink.  Scientists have now linked the artificial sweetener sucralose (sold ...

In recent years, images and videos taken with state-of-the-art microscopy techniques have shown that new neurons in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus go through a series of changes as they link up ...

Leafy greens like spinach and kale offer major brain-healthy nutrients like “vitamin K, lutein, folate, and beta carotene,” ...

Having ADHD as an adult can make it hard to focus ... researchers say people with the condition have differences in brain structure, function, and chemistry compared to those without it.

Each contains an inverted map of the body—a ... a transformation like this to be utterly impossible. But the adult brain is incredibly plastic and can fairly quickly take command of a foreign ...

These atlases of healthy adult brains also provide a baseline ... other species and across developmental times. As the human brain contains around 200 billion cells compared to the mouse brain ...