People who spend more time in school are generally healthier, smarter, and have better jobs and higher incomes than those ...

MRI data reveals no structural brain changes from an extra school year, hinting that education’s benefits may not extend to ...

A recent study explored whether additional years of education lead to long-term changes in brain structure, especially in protecting against brain aging.

Whether prolonged education actually causes changes in brain structure over the long term and protects against brain aging is ...

New findings cast some doubt on the notion that there's a direct link between education and the health of the aging brain.

The Green Mediterranean diet may help slow brain aging by controlling blood sugar levels, benefiting cognitive health in older adults.

A regression discontinuity analysis finds essentially no effect of 1 additional year of secondary education on brain structure in adulthood. This is a valuable finding that adds to the literature on ...

In 1972, Britain bumped up the total school years mandated for its children from 15 to 16 years.That created a "natu ...

Thanks to a 'natural experiment' involving 30,000 people, researchers at Radboud university medical center were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in ...

New research reveals the brain sequences actions like a music box, with implications for understanding cognition and psychiatric conditions.

The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly ...

Have you ever wondered just how fast we can process words? It turns out that human brains can decode written language in the ...