Nov. 12, 2024 — Glioblastoma is the most common kind of malignant brain tumor in adults. So far, no treatment has been able to make this aggressive tumor permanently disappear. The tumor cells ...

A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks ...

What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)? A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to your brain, often caused by a blow to the head. TBIs can damage nerve cells and cause bleeding or swelling in ...

Cardiac arrest (when the heart stops beating) interrupts circulation, causing brain cells to start dying in less than five minutes of the brain going without needed oxygen in the blood. The ...

Brain imaging refers to the usually non-invasive or minimally invasive techniques that enable imaging the structure or function of the brain. Brain imaging techniques take advantage of X-rays ...

"Learning and memory are generally associated with brains and brain cells alone, but our study shows that other cells in the body can learn and form memories, too," explains New York University's ...

When it comes to brain health, some things are out of your control. Age is the biggest risk factor for developing dementia, according to the World Health Organization, but others such as genetics ...

For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain “organoids,” as they’re called, have always ...

The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Yet, despite decades of research, the mystery of how the brain ...

The TikTokification of social media has created a landscape that caters to shorter videos, which is likely having a profound effect on the attention spans of some of our most impressionable ...

Researchers are uncovering deeper insights into how the human brain ages and what factors may be tied to healthier cognitive aging, including exercising, avoiding tobacco, speaking a second ...