A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

It's not unusual for animals like bears to build their body mass in the lead-up to winter, stockpiling fat while dialing down their metabolism to endure the lean times ahead. With a life-expectancy of ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

On brain scans, these people show less brain shrinkage than would be expected at their stage of life and, because of this, may be more protected against developing dementia. The scientists who studied ...