Over the past decades, some lawyers have started using brain imaging scans as evidence during criminal trials, to provide a ...

A crucial link between the brain's cleaning system and deterioration of neurons associated with Alzheimer's disease has been ...

Summary: New research reveals how a tiny chemical mark on RNA helps wire the brain during development. Scientists discovered ...

Boosting the brain’s sugar-clearing switch cuts toxic buildup and may explain why fasting looks good for memory.

In a peer-reviewed paper published in 2022 in the journal Science Advances, researchers from the University of Aberdeen and ...

Using machine learning and brain scans, researchers found that accelerated brain aging increases the impact of cognitive risk ...

Scientists have uncovered how puberty reshapes brain connectivity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a genetic condition linked to ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Neuroscientists explain how optical illusions expose the brain’s shortcuts in processing reality, revealing how perception ...

A new study has found that damage to a specific white matter pathway in the brain—the right uncinate fasciculus—may increase the likelihood of criminal or violent behavior following brain injury.

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

A new study suggests that damage to a key part of the brain involved in judgment and emotional regulation could explain why ...