The Brain

Two species of monkey have shown better cognitive flexibility than their human counterparts, being a...

According to new research from the University of Arizona, the compactness of a type of brain tissue ...

Japanese scientists have developed a method to keep complex tissues viable for study for extended pe...

Scientists have managed to encode "false" memories and parts of a song into the brain of a tiny bird...

Singapore students learn to spell better when they are divided into teams that compete for rewards, ...

Female orgasms appear to be the resulting of re-purposing the pathways that cause some animals to tr...

Reducing activity in a brain region associated with performance anxiety results in fewer mistakes....

Imaging of mouse brains shows far more widespread activity than anticipated when faced with challeng...

A possible biological cause for hypersexuality has been identified in oxytocin regulation, but is it...

In the hopes of finding the “choreography of human attraction,” scientists measured the physiology o...

The brain may have a specialized set of neurons that work to make us forget, hoping to weed out the ...

It’s long been believed that the beserkers used psychedelic mushrooms before battles to enter into a...

A man suffered from a stroke and started to view his surroundings as if they were shrunken-down mini...

What’s the secret ingredient to a happy relationship? The answer could lie in the way you argue....

A new study has found that news stories and the public are more likely to blame video games as a cau...

It turns out Generation Z do have some of the traits ascribed to them, not because they are so diffe...

Researchers studying 'foot artists', that create their art with their feet as they have no hands, ha...

Autism interferes with individual social judgments, but is actually associated with better collectiv...