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Neurosurgery expert says new approach could encourage more people to get check-ups for epilepsy conditions Hongkonger Lo ...

New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

A powerful pulsed laser beam was directed at one side of the head, with a detector placed on the other side. Only a few ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

However, a key limitation has persisted: light typically only penetrates around four centimeters into the tissue, restricting measurements to the surface of the brain. Now, a team of researchers at ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known as "fNIRS" (short for "functional near-infrared spectroscopy"), measures ...

A world-first study led by the University of Sydney has uncovered subtle but measurable changes in the brain following routine heading of a soccer ball — even in the absence of concussion or ...

July 2, 2025 — A new brain scan tool shows how quickly your body and mind are aging. It can spot early signs of diseases like dementia, long before symptoms begin. The scan looks at hidden clues ...

More information: The placental steroid hypothesis of human brain evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (2025). DOI: 10.1002/evan.70003 ...

The human brain is the most complicated organ that nature has ever created: 100 billion nerve cells and many more contact points between them provide our brain with capabilities that no supercomputer ...