Individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging, according...
A multinational team of researchers led by Dr Philipp Khaitovich from Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has suggested...
A new study, reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, confirms that a gene called USP9X is critical to the earliest stages of the human brain...
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology have discovered that dogs communicate more information about their feelings with their tails than...
Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have used the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to map the different ways in which...
We would like to think that scientific efforts are free of trends and human whims and proceed in a straight line for the good of humanity; but this is...
According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food.
The study sheds...
European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...
Biologists led by Dr Don Arnold and Dr Richard Roberts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, have released an astonishing picture of...
A new small study of healthy women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics has provided the first evidence that changing the bacterial...
Australian scientists have created the most detailed atlas of the mouse brain, a development that is helping in the fight against brain disease.
3D surface...
In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...
Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...
A new study in mice led by Prof Bo Li of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory examines how fear responses are learned, controlled, and memorized. The findings...
A team of neuroscientists has created a detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, the ability to process emotional information.
Prof...
A new study published in the journal Science reveals for the first time the birth timing and embryonic origin of elusive brain cells called chandelier...
A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...
A team of scientists has shown that brain levels of serotonin, the happy hormone, are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life.
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