Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged ...

The brains of animals are the most complex structures on Earth. The human brain contains about eighty six billion nerve cells, or neurons, and an estimated two trillion synaptic connections, where ...

Summary: A new study reveals that human accelerated regions (HARs)—segments of DNA that evolved much faster than expected—may be key to the brain’s advanced cognitive abilities. Researchers compared ...

The investigation of shared response and individual differences in the human brain in naturalistic environments holds potential for research in psychiatry. Wang K. et al. analyzed EEG signals in ...

That has made many people, including scientists, wonder: what are the differences between a dolphin brain vs human brain? These brains are very different in some ways but also similar in others. We’re ...

Last year, a group of scientists made headlines when they concluded that the human brain shrank during the transition to modern urban societies about 3,000 years ago because, they said, our ancestors’ ...

The aim of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig is to investigate human cognitive abilities and brain processes. The main focus of the research is on the neuronal ...

Centre for Cognition, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Human communication has been described as involving the ...