Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

Roughly 20% of medical schools now offer an accelerated pathway, meant to reduce student debt and somehow fix the primary care crisis. A new study shows we can fast-track doctor-making without ...

The COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated brain aging, even among people who avoided becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, new research suggested. By comparing longitudinal brain scans from healthy ...

A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry suggests that adversity experienced during late childhood is associated with accelerated changes in brain connectivity between cortical and subcortical ...

Poor sleep in early midlife was associated with faster brain aging on MRI. Sleep quality at age 40 appeared to predict brain age 15 years later. People with more than three poor sleep characteristics ...

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and ...

Research shows that people who sleep poorly tend to have brain age that is older than their actual age. Chronic inflammation ...

Recent research suggests that the food we eat may influence the biological aging of our brains. A study involving over 20,000 adults indicates that consuming a diet high in pro-inflammatory foods is ...