An ancient viral insertion silences LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells, while the gene is active during early human brain ...

A groundbreaking study challenges 70 years of assumptions about how human language works. By analyzing billions of word uses, scientists discovered that meaning is organized around power, danger, and ...

Common marmosets have nearly smooth brains, unlike most primates, and a team at the German Primate Center in Göttingen now ...

The findings challenge the assumption that all major reproductive hormonal transitions affect brain structure in similar ways ...

LSD speeds up the brain’s alpha and beta rhythms by about 2 and 5 hertz, respectively, while genuinely weakening them, ...

Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients.

This roadmap culminates years of dedicated research by the Feinstein Institutes. Publicly released in July with SPARC Science ...

Researchers are finding soot and metals deep in human brains, linking air pollution to dementia and brain shrinkage.

Growing evidence suggests that GLP-1 drugs may influence mood, reward processing, cognition, reproductive health, and ...

A fibril-selective, Fc-free nanantibody bound Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid assemblies and reduced injury signals in human ...

Extreme quiet removes familiar background sounds, making breathing, heartbeats, and internal sensations more noticeable.

An fMRI study of 16 cognitive tasks found that cortical connectivity dimensionality predicts whether task representations are ...