What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain ...

A new study reveals that the human brain synchronizes more accurately with rhythm when listening to music than when feeling it through touch.

The new study adds to a mountain of evidence that autism is genetic, with up to 80 percent of cases linked to inherited gene ...

We've all experienced defeat at some point – losing a game, a potential new job, a debate. Now, a new study has found that ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

Researchers have developed brain-on-a-chip technology that uses human tissue to model how the brain’s protective barrier breaks down during inflammation and disease.

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow.

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Learning comes from all our senses. Whether it is judging the situation, or object, we judge it according to our 5 senses.

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising non-invasive neuroimaging technique that works by detecting ...

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 ...