A new McGill-led study reveals that digital brain exercises can rejuvenate aging brain systems responsible for learning and memory. Older adults using BrainHQ for 10 weeks showed restored cholinergic ...

A decade ago in Davos, I spoke on a panel with Dr. Aki Hintsa, an orthopedic and trauma surgeon who was coaching Formula One drivers on brain health and performance. He was also working with Dr. Tommy ...

A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain. By Andrew Jacobs As researchers have sought to demonstrate the ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine you’re in line at your favourite bakery, deciding whether to have a ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs. A new analysis broadens our understanding of psychedelics, such as the psilocybin ...

The ‘brain in a jar’ is one of science fiction’s most enduring tropes. Stripped of its body but not of its will, the isolated brain is most often portrayed as a malevolent force, able to impose its ...

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way to more precise and effective psychiatric drugs. This fluorescent microscope ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

The development of the human brain, with its extraordinary range of cognitive abilities, is an awe-inspiring feat of evolution. Each of its tens of billions of cells must be born at precisely the ...

For months, readers emailed Snopes and searched our website to learn whether tech billionaire Bill Gates had really developed or endorsed products claiming to treat Alzheimer's disease or dementia.

Marijuana use seems to be more popular (or at least more openly talked about) than ever. Regardless of whether you’re on the gummy bandwagon, you might wonder how it really affects your brain after ...