Researchers have created a detailed map of chemical modifications to DNA that occur in the human brain from the earliest ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

Findings by Hopkins researchers suggest that all humans are equipped with the foundation needed to learn programming ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Most people describe their response to misophonia triggers as emotional. Yet, emotions are only a part of the misophonia ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...