UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

Regrowing the human brain is no longer science fiction. Johns Hopkins engineer Annie Kathuria discusses her TEDx vision for ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

Dr. Madhureeta Achari says most Americans are “nutritionally deficient” — and explains why feeding your brain real, colorful ...

“The results showed that individuals who were physically active performed better in these cognitive tests, demonstrating ...

Researchers have created functional brain-like tissue without relying on any animal-derived materials, marking a major step toward more ethical and reproducible neurological research.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the ...

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...