A new study reveals how the brain responds to mental exhaustion, identifying two key regions—the right insula and the ...

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

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

The youngest human female to give birth did so before her 6th birthday. #72 Using an acid bath does NOT "melt body's" as claimed by Jessy Pinkman in the TV show, Breaking Bad.

New research reveals that Alzheimer's disease may impair nerve function not by reducing myelin, but by altering the proteins at the critical interface between axons and their myelin sheath.

Estradiol May Protect the Female Brain as It Ages Estradiol, the most potent form of estrogen during a woman’s reproductive years, may help protect ... A Case for estradiol: younger brains in women ...

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

So is it actually possible for adults to grow neurons? While some experts believe there's strong evidence that we can gain brain cells after childhood, others are still skeptical of this notion.

"I was in my early 20s, sitting at a bus station in Portland, Oregon, when a woman next to me, out of nowhere, mid-cigarette, ...

Wasp Mums Keep Remarkable Mental To-Do List For Multiple Nests Despite Tiny Brain. The childcare schedule of female digger wasps is impressive to ... Despite their small size and simple brains, ...