Prenatal estrogen brain development research: two studies in Early Human Development find that first-trimester maternal ...

A new study challenges the familiar idea that the brain evolved by stacking rational systems on top of primitive emotional ...

Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

Share on Pinterest Our brains may only reach adulthood in our 30s, a recent study says. Image credit: Johner Images/Getty Images The brain develops through distinct phases over the course of a ...

An estimated 86 billion neurons in the average human brain govern our body’s functions and conjure — somehow — the human mind. C. elegans has 302 neurons in one sex and a few more in the other.

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

Sometimes there are slightly different versions, or sequences of genes. There are several versions of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, for example. One of them, called APOE4, has been linked to a ...

Under stress, exhaustion and sleeplessness often occur together. Part of the reason lies in the biology of survival.

Pharmacodynamic effects in the human brain and energy metabolism biomarker data presented at AAIC support further clinical development of VNA-318 in Alzheimer’s disease ...