For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Researchers took brain scans of amputees before surgery and five years after it, and the results shocked them.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Analogous to how all of the words in a language can be created by recombining the letters of its alphabet, a new study finds that the full repertoire of human hand actions can be built out of a small ...

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

So President Obama has proposed a Brain Activity Map (BAM) project to reveal some of these remaining secrets, using the Human Genome Project as a model. Not all scientists, however, are on board.

However, because the human brain has about 20,000 clock neurons, understanding how they function has been a complex challenge. “To tackle this complexity, we turn to model organisms like fruit flies,” ...

This moving dot depicts something few people have ever seen: fresh cerebrospinal fluid flowing from the spinal cord into the ...

A large cross-linguistic study has revealed that human speech worldwide follows a universal rhythm, with intonation units appearing roughly every 1.6 seconds.

Tufts researchers report that eight key nutrients may influence dementia, cardiovascular disease, and other health conditions. Eight vital nutrients form the group of B vitamins known as the B complex ...