Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The women’s health corner of the internet went into a bit of a frenzy after claims circulated that the brain “eats itself” during ...

The menopause transition can be a difficult part of a person’s life. Hot flashes are a common symptom, but the effects of hormonal changes can run much more deeply and affect everyday life. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. The image is representative of the general pattern ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh. In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Neuroscientists have long held that the brain reorganizes itself when a body part is amputated. A new ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...