Differences in the physical shape and wiring of the brain can directly contribute to the development of attention and social ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

The human brain is a marvel of complexity. It contains specialised and interconnected structures controlling our thoughts, personality and behaviour. The size and shape of our brains also play a ...

People given general anaesthesia fall into a coma-like state in which their memory and perception of pain are switched off.

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Forget crowd sizes — a new study confirms that conservatives boast slightly larger amygdalas, the part of the brain that plays a key role in identifying and reacting to potential threats, compared ...

Researchers debunk what science believed about brain cell structure for 100 years, finding axons form repeating pearl-like ...

The largest neuroimaging study of conduct disorder to date has revealed extensive changes in brain structure among young people with the disorder. The largest difference was a smaller area of the ...

A new study shows that lower accumulation of abdominal fat in midlife is associated with a significant slowing of brain ...

A study reveals that lower midlife abdominal fat correlates with slower brain atrophy and improved cognitive function over ...