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Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.

A year-long aerobic workout program may do more than improve fitness—it could actually slow brain aging.

Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganise itself by forming new neural connections or by changing and improving the existing ones. Before the concept of neuroplasticity was pioneered, it ...

If you wanted to build a brain, how would you go about it? From the top down, focusing on the functions of the various centers of thought? Or from the bottom up, starting with the circuitry of the ...

Two stories explore how early brain-building shapes learning, reading and child development. This episode explores how brain development can be shaped from pregnancy through the school years. In one ...