Key to human intelligence lies in how brain networks work together, neuroimaging study suggests

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Scientists once thought the brain couldn’t be changed. Now we know different

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...
New Atlas

Your brain makes drastic changes at these five points in life

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...
New Scientist

Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90

Our brain function is far from static throughout our lives. We already know that our capacity to learn, and our risk of cognitive decline, varies from when we are a newborn through to our 90s. Now, ...