Genes contribute to normal individual variation in brain development ... results in many more synapses than remain in the adult brain. The reduction in synapses that happens as a person grows ...

Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and dementia.

The "optimal" group of 70-year-olds had more education, less cardiovascular risk, less white matter disease, thicker cortex, ...

We found that new neurons in the adult brain are linked to reduced cognitive decline—particularly in verbal learning, or learning by listening to others. Researchers know that new neurons ...

Having ADHD as an adult can make it hard to focus ... researchers say people with the condition have differences in brain structure, function, and chemistry compared to those without it.

Excessive brain iron has been linked to poor cognitive performance, even in normal aging ... for reducing brain iron accumulation in older adults," said Valentinos Zachariou, Ph.D., an assistant ...