Blood vessels at the back of your eye may one day alert doctors to signs of early dementia, a new study suggests.

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...

Previous studies have shown that preventing vision loss, treating depression and doing plenty of exercise are all ways of ...

The New England Family Study, launched in 1959 and now led by a Brown epidemiologist, spans three generations of participants ...

Many teachers and parents know neuroscience, the study of how the brain functions and develops, is important for children's ...

Researchers have scanned the brains of more than 500 babies and young children in order to paint a detailed picture of the ...

Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.

From this age, the human hippocampus can encode short-term memory traces, according to a pair of American researchers in the journal 'Science.' ...

Individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease show altered blood levels indicating damaged neuronal contacts as early as 11 years before the expected onset of dementia symptoms.

New research has uncovered a disrupted brain communication pathway in children with autism that impairs their ability to quickly shift attention—an essential skill for social interaction.

A study has shown how aspects of brain function change with age, revealing that excitatory processes in the brain decrease, while inhibitory processes increase as children get older. The findings are ...

A study has captured signs of early memory formation in babies as young as three months old. Understanding how babies learn ...