It's well known that alcohol consumption is an age-old method for coping with stress. But recent research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that when such self-medication begins ...

January 11, 2010 — Children who develop schizophrenia as adults already show signs of cognitive deficits by the age of 7 years and lag behind their peers on measures of memory, attention, and ...

Neuronal activity during development shapes functional connectivity between neurons and thus determines the ‘wiring’ of the mammalian brain. As best described for the development of sensory systems, ...

A recent study published in the journal GeroScience suggests that a person’s overall physical and mental reserve can predict ...

Researchers have now uncovered their crucial role in closing the period of brain plasticity that follows birth, finding them to be key to the development of sensory and cognitive faculties. Over the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Incident HF was linked to a decline in acute global cognition and later steep decline in cognitive function.