New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Let us start with the brain. The brain is a physical organ, (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that ...

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

Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the development of the cerebrum. Researchers have provided evidence that these genes contribute together to the evolutionary ...

A recent study reveals that the human brain, when lacking energy, might draw from its own fatty tissues. This discovery ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain—and examined how neurons, or nerve cells, refine their ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the ...