Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...

Published in 2023, an analysis of human brain tissue discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer's were more frequently in a pre-inflammatory state, making them less likely to be ...

The largest brain autopsy study of women who had experienced intimate partner violence reveals substantial vascular and white matter damage in the brain, but no evidence of chronic traumatic ...

Many of the people working to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act have argued that the brain-based definition of death should be maintained because whole-brain death is the death of a ...

How scientists measured human brain activity near death The four patients in the recent study were comatose and removed from life support, with their families' permission.