Amanda Guyer, professor in the Department of Human Ecology and a faculty researcher at the Center for Mind and Brain, is ...

For some neuroscientists, the question of when the brain "stops" developing is headache-inducing. "It was kind of this unfathomable question," Duncan Astle, a researcher at the University of Cambridge ...

In a new study published recently in the journal Nature, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health have ...

A new study from Oregon Health & Science University found that air pollution can impact adolescent brain development. The analysis indicated that exposure to common air pollutants is associated with ...

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In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

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Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to ...