A new study at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that high activity in the amygdala when an adolescent looks at a face showing emotions predicts their social health two years later. The ...

The study found practice frees the brain's decision-making centre. Brain rewires for true multitasking, new study finds.

Can driving a car benefit your brain? Yes, if it has a manual transmission. That’s the surprising result of research at Japan ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

How does our brain, which is capable of generating complex thoughts, actions and even self-reflection, grow out of essentially nothing? An experiment in tadpoles, in which an electronic implant was ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

A recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry provides evidence that experiencing abuse during different stages of ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and Child Development study consortium. Providing scientists around the world ...

The study reveals that prenatal fructose exposure directly alters neural stem cells (NSCs), the foundational master cells ...