Poor nutrition during pregnancy sets the stage for future brain health issues. Scientists discovered that a brief taste of unhealthy food in adulthood sparks massive inflammation in rats exposed to a ...
Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...
On Thursday, March 12, Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton welcomed to campus Dr. Frances Jensen ’78—renowned ...
A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and ...
Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.
Dr. Frances Jensen ’78, acclaimed author of The Teenage Brain, will speak at a colloquium on Thursday, March 12 at 5 p.m. in ...
A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. The research from Karolinska ...
Researchers from the University of Oxford have created the first high-resolution molecular atlas of the adult Drosophila ...
CAMBRIDGE, UK — The human brain doesn't simply grow and then decline. Instead, it moves through five distinct structural phases over a lifetime, separated by four major turning points at ages 9, 32, ...