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You’ve likely heard that the brain isn’t fully developed until someone’s around 26 years old. But did you know that the brain rewires itself throughout the lifetime? University of Cambridge ...

North Texas researchers identify gene changes in brain reward circuits that may point to new treatments for those struggling ...

Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

As they age, some people find it harder to understand speech in noisy environments. Now, UB researchers have identified the area in the brain, called the insula, that shows significant changes in ...

If the award-winning 1967 movie The Graduate were remade today, the film’s memorable word would need to switch from "plastics" to "plasticity," to mark the present as well as the future.

BRAIN DANGER: Using ChatGPT on a long-term basis could have negative effects on brain function. That’s according to a study led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which found that ...