The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

A powerful pulsed laser beam was directed at one side of the head, with a detector placed on the other side. Only a few ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and ...

In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

The first 3D map of mitochondria in the human brain has been created, revealing how brain energy influences cognitive aging.