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

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.

One of the newest institutes on Florida’s ‘Brain Coast’ is deep-mining neuroscience, from molecules to mind, and inspiring its local community in the process. What can a tiny worm reveal about ...

The brain disease that the NFL has now acknowledged can be caused by playing football appears to be more widespread than originally thought, according to new scientific evidence that has alarmed some ...

Humankind has been obsessed with reversing age and somehow finding the key to immortality, ever since they learned they were mortal. While aging is a natural process, and there is nothing wrong with ...

Discussing Kim’s recent brain scan, her doctor pointed out “holes” on her brain scan, which he said were related to “low ...

Scientists have developed a nasal-spray using nanomedicine that, in mice, travels directly to the brain and activates the ...

WASHINGTON — Like any young woman in love, Bianca Acevedo has exchanged valentine hearts with her fiance. But the New York neuroscientist knows better. The source of love is in the head, not the heart ...