“We have to protect the young brains from being bombarded by these viruses of violence; it is very necessary because it is a very impressionable age. You don’t take kids to adult ...

Cytowic argues in his new book, "Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload" (MIT Press, 2024). In his book, Cytowic discusses how the human brain ...

Alzheimer’s disease may cause degeneration of neurons in the brain through amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, inflammation, and brain atrophy. The condition may affect different parts of ...

But the impacts of the pandemic on young brains went even further than that. As you age, the outer layer of tissue on your brain (called the cerebral cortex) thins out. And researchers at the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the field of paleoanthropology has shed light on a new human species called Homo juluensis, with distinctively large skulls. Dubbed "Large Head People," this ...

As the size of a person’s belly grows, the memory center of their brain shrinks and beta amyloid and tau may appear — all of this occurring as early as a person’s 40s and 50s, well before ...

Fans of SpongeBob SquarePants know that when the show goes to stop-action animation, they’re in for a special, holiday-themed episode. This year, a new stop-action holiday special is accompanied ...

Cambridge Dictionary named 'manifest' as its word of the year for 2024 Oxford University Press has declared 'brain rot' as the word of the year for 2024, summing up widespread concerns over ...

Two paralysed patients have been able to walk short distances and even climb stairs once more after being implanted with electrodes in their brains. Both had catastrophic spinal injuries that ...

After tallying more than 37,000 votes from around the globe, the company on Monday announced the 2024 Oxford Word of The Year: "brain rot." A noun, 'brain rot' is defined as the assumed ...

Words picked by the publisher in previous years include rizz and goblin mode. 'Brain rot', according to Oxford University Press, is the "supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual ...

No part of our body is as perishable as the brain. Within minutes of losing its supply of blood and oxygen, our delicate neurological machinery begins to suffer irreversible damage. The brain is ...