Researchers have made great strides to understand early signs of autism. Studies have found that certain factors like ...

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General Hospital' star Kirsten Storms said that she has not yet undergone brain surgery after revealing doctors found a brain ...

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

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Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...