(Highwaystarz-Photography/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The female brain does something unexpected in the transition to menopause. It's entirely natural for gray matter in the brain to gradually shrink as ...

As the brain ages, cells in the central nervous system experience metabolic dysfunction and increased oxidative damage. These cellular issues impair the ability to maintain the myelin sheath (the ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital and collaborating institutions reveal in the journal Nature a novel mechanism that ...

In 21 papers published as a package Thursday, researchers have provided a new map of the human brain, refining the resolution, as one scientist described it, from a rough outline of a shoreline to a ...

Engaging core muscles - through movement, exercise, or even coughing - may be a key regulator of blood flow in the brain.