Learn the new science of brain development and discover the importance of connections and learning for ongoing brain health.

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A Nutshell You can nudge your brain’s “study mode”: start with focused basics, ...

With a new year, a healthier brain can boost your happiness and career success in 2026, plus offset brain diseases, if you ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

When we learn a new skill, our brain forms new connections between the neurons. The more we do the new skill, the stronger ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

A landmark study published by scientists at the University of California San Diego is redefining science's understanding of the way learning takes place. The findings, published in the journal Nature ...

Cognitive decline is natural: it starts to subtly set in by our 40s, and by your mid-50s it’s perfectly normal to find ...

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...