Genes play a powerful role in shaping your health—you won’t believe how your DNA influences everything from ADHD to Parkinson ...

Whether prolonged education actually causes changes in brain structure over the long term and protects against brain aging is ...

MRI data reveals no structural brain changes from an extra school year, hinting that education’s benefits may not extend to ...

The human brain can detect the structure of a short sentence in as little as 150 milliseconds, the speed of a blink.

A recent study explored whether additional years of education lead to long-term changes in brain structure, especially in protecting against brain aging.

Characterized by shared differences in motor and social behaviors, autism spectrum disorder ( ASD) is also a condition that ...

A recent observational study suggests that lifetime cannabis use is linked to various changes in brain structure.

A regression discontinuity analysis finds essentially no effect of 1 additional year of secondary education on brain structure in adulthood. This is a valuable finding that adds to the literature on ...

People who regularly use marijuana experience changes in their brain structure and function, but it's not clear that cannabis ...

A surprisingly large part of our political outlook may be explained by differences in our brain structure, biology, and genetics.

Certain genes influence the volume of key brain regions, which, in turn, could play a role in the development of Parkinson's ...

Thanks to a 'natural experiment' involving 30,000 people, researchers were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in the long term. To their surprise, they ...