"I didn't realise how terrible my posture was until an MRI showed it was slowly killing my brain," he tweeted. In his post, the tech mogul said that his MRI indicated that his posture was trapping ...

A crucial molecule for brain health acts as a garbage collector of other fat molecules (lipids), despite also being a lipid itself. So for more than half a century, researchers have puzzled over how ...

Neuroscientists collected DNA samples and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans to analyze brain volume in specific regions and compare this with genetic variations. They identified 254 ...

Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction. Now studies show that the concept of zero is processed in similar ways to many numbers and can be ...

“It took an eternity until mathematicians finally invented zero as a number.” Perhaps that’s no surprise given that the concept can be difficult for the brain to grasp. It takes children longer to ...

According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action ...

Being bullied when young is associated with widespread changes in the adolescent brain, which may influence future mental health, according to the largest brain scanning study of its kind.