Depression affects millions of people worldwide, but much is still unknown about this illness and treatments don't always ...

New study reveals brain aging accelerates at 44 and peaks at 67, with ketone supplements showing potential to slow age-related decline.

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much?

Researchers used a virtual reality game and functional MRI to uncover how children's brains with ADHD respond differently ...

By comparing brain activity during successful memory formation versus forgotten images, the researchers confirmed that the ...

The game was projected onto a mirror, allowing children to play while their brain activity was scanned. The results were then compared with scans taken while they were doing more passive ...

as a proxy for local neuron signaling—higher levels mean more brain activity. The head needs to keep very still throughout the scans to avoid blurring. That’s not easily accomplished with babies and ...

Meanwhile, the fMRI was snapping pictures of the baby's brain, including its hippocampus, "a region that we know is super ...

Compared to sugar, consuming sucralose—a widely used sugar substitute—increases activity in the hypothalamus, a brain region ...

"The field of neuroscience has made great progress decoding motor activity and how the brain processes sight and sound. But a holy grail of this type of research is thought—what comes between the ...

"What happens in your brain in the first two ... for memory in adults," says Yates. The scans revealed that starting at about 12 months of age, the more activity there was in the baby's ...