Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception. The brain is constantly ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared ...