The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lanzhou University has obtained ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Bindu Paul, an associate professor of pharmacology, psychiatry and neuroscience ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

PORTLAND, OR – Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child’s developing brain and cause damage to ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...