A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence shows that brain overgrowth in...
Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that a chemical compound in the brain can weaken the synaptic connections...
Brain circuits for visual categorization revealed by new experiments Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire...
Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the...
Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across...
Visual working memory not as specialized in the brain as visual encoding, study finds. Researchers have long known that specific...
As they try to find the best reward among options, some people explore based on how uncertain they are about...
Blocking it stumps memory-guided decision-making in rats – NIH-funded study Awake mental replay of past experiences is essential for making...
New research provides the strongest evidence to date that psychopathy is linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain. The...
MRI images show what the brain looks like when you do something you know you shouldn’t. New pictures from the...
You pick up your cell phone and dial the new number of a friend. Ten numbers. One. Number. At. A....
Researchers found that development of the cortical surface is delayed in frontal brain regions in children with ADHD. The typically developing children attained 50% peak area in the right prefrontal cortex at a mean age of 12.7 years, whereas the ADHD children didn’t reach this peak until 14.6 years of age.