Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified neurons that are essential for mice to engage in social interactions ...

Closing in on 25 years since the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks, WTC responders continue to suffer long-term effects from their exposures at Ground Zero. One issue of possible growing concern is ...

Previous research has found differences in gene expression between humans and chimpanzees, and that human cells tend to have higher gene expression, but the picture was blurry. The brain is made ...

mice across 16 broad brain regions. The aged mice are what scientists consider to be the equivalent of a late middle-aged human. Mouse brains share many similarities with human brains in terms of ...

Downregulation of MARCKSL1 in the amygdala ameliorates anxiety-like behaviors MARCKSL1 is increased in a brain injury model associated with anxiety. The molecular pathogenesis underlying anxiety ...

Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images The human brain is a biological marvel, stuffed with some 86 billion neurons tangling in ways that even scientists have not yet been able to fully map and ...

These differences impact the rate of growth of different brain regions. Evidence suggests that on average, the frontal lobe (which promotes self control) and the amygdala (which controls ...

as the brain’s inherent speed limit persists. Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies’ sensory systems gather data about our ...

Where to find the human brain activity data? One of the great challenges in neuroscience is having brain activity data from living humans for obvious reasons. Thus, when there are patients who ...

A study found that the human brain can discern the basic structures of written language in the time it takes to blink. That suggests the brain can process written phrases about as quickly as it ...