A study suggests that carefully controlled electrical stimulation of the brain may improve math skills, most significantly in people with weaker connections in a specific part of the brain.

The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mildly electrically stimulating these networks can boost learning, according to a study published in the ...

This is an important study that combines replications of findings and novel detailed MRI investigations to assess the impact of environmental enrichment and maternal behavior on mice brain structure ...

A woman was told she had Alzheimer’s 13 years ago. Now she’s walking the width of the U.S. after reversing her illness - US ...

USC researchers have found a promising new brain scan marker that could better detect Alzheimer’s risk — but only for some.

The primary visual cortex (V1) is probably the best characterized area of primate cortex, but whether this region contributes directly to conscious visual experience is controversial. Early ...

We hypothesized that brain-derived ... and parietal lobe brain volume in patients with schizophrenia. 79,80 Further work evaluating other polymorphic regions of the BDNF gene in ...