A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and focus, offering a neural basis for growing wisdom.

Researchers at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science identified a pair of neurons that integrate sweet and bitter ...

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If you’ve taken amphetamines such as speed, you need to wait a month before doing so again, both to combat the effects of sleep deprivation and overheating, and to avoid falling into chronic use, ...

CDC issued a travel alert for 32 countries, urging Americans to practice enhanced precautions against polio this Spring Break ...

Introduction Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is associated with changes in brain structure, cognition, mental health, and functional outcomes. While these changes have been linked to dysregulated glycaemic ...

A long-term NIH study found that older adults who completed brain speed training had a 25% lower risk of developing dementia. Participants did short, intensive training sessions focused on rapid ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

For decades, my colleagues and I advanced the premise that early substance use—nicotine, alcohol, or cannabis (or other addicting drugs)—interferes with critical maturation stages, particularly ...

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