The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

The smarter you are, the more your brain is in sync with its own secret rhythm, a new study has found. When your brain works particularly hard, different regions of the brain sync up as they work ...

Ground-breaking research analyzed over 4,000 brain scans to identify five different neuroscience-based life stages.

In a previous mouse study, the same research team found a protein in the brain called Rap1, which impacted how glucose is ...

The traditional boundaries between professional and personal life are increasingly blurred. The idea of work-life balance — where work and personal time are neatly divided — has given way to a more ...

New research suggests that a hidden trait in your body could hold the key to maintaining a younger brain — and the implications are huge. “Better brain health, in turn, lowers the risk for future ...

A new study finds that brain changes are not a steady progression; instead, distinct neural rewiring occurs around ages 9, 32 ...

Recent research reveals that metformin, a long-used diabetes drug, may function through the brain more than previously ...