Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

A recent study has shed light on the brain structure differences associated with psychopathy—a condition known to be one of ...

It is the end of a long, hard work day and all you feel like doing is flop on the sofa and watch TV. Your eyes move to something on the screen and watch it for a few minutes, then you think to ...

You can now order a literal bio-computer with 800,000 neurons inside, courtesy of Cortical Labs, for a cool $35,000. We talked about this topic before, but the CL1 is now commercially available ...

Music creates faster dopamine response than meditation The brain’s reward system responds to music with remarkable speed and intensity. When you hear a particularly moving musical passage or the ...

To determine which brain areas are necessary for a certain ability, researchers study patients with brain lesions (an area of damage in the brain) caused by stroke or brain tumours.

But the main differences we found were not in the prefrontal cortex. They were in the temporal lobe, a large part of cortex located approximately behind the ear. In the primate brain, this area is ...

Food-Drink Sugar substitutes can cause brain changes that increase appetite, study says Sucralose, a widely used sugar substitute, reacts differently in area of brain that regulates appetite ...

Much of the previous research on human brain uniqueness has focused on the prefrontal cortex, a group of areas at the front of our brain linked to complex thought and decision making.

Mikael Roll receives funding from the Swedish Research Council (Grant No. 2018.00632), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Grant No. 2018.0454), Crafoord Foundation (Grant No. 2017.0006), and ...

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...