A team of researchers from Spain was curious to know if people with high psychopathic traits have anomalies in the brain's ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked neural pathway that helps control human hand and arm movements. The discovery shows that signals guiding voluntary hand motion travel through deeper ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

Schizophrenia risk may reflect two brain pathways with different cortical and subcortical balance. Early language learning ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...

A new study shows that 20 minutes of cardio can trigger memory-linked brain waves in the hippocampus, offering the first direct evidence of this effect in humans.

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

A new study shows that improving your cardiovascular endurance changes your neural chemistry. Fitter individuals release ...