In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

To fill in the full picture of what is happening around us, our brains process attention systematically, taking in general facts first and then narrowing down to specifics.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia ...

Are the brains of left-handers different than those of right-handers? A recent study investigated this question from a new ...

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...

Trauma happens when you experience an event that is physically or emotionally harmful or even life-threatening. Your brain ...

A team of scientists at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has published new evidence suggesting that the ...