The results of a study published in February 2024 by a team of researchers at Stanford University have shed new light on the ...

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Research on lifestyle changes and the development of preventive approaches are presenting an opportunity.

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

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

Myth #1: Women’s brains are more balanced. "It is true that men use one side of their brain to listen while women use both sides," says the Suite 101 website, with misplaced confidence. This is ...

A third study, by Ivanka Savic and Stefan Arver titled “Sex Dimorphism of the Brain in Male-to-Female Transsexuals,” comprehensively analyzed structural brain differences using MRI. While the authors ...

Important brain structures that are key for signaling in the brain are narrower and less dense in females, ... "If female brains are more vulnerable to damage from concussion, ...

It's a sensitive subject, to be approached with caution: A team of researchers from Stanford University, California, have chosen to study the human brain, questioning whether there were any ...

Earlier studies concluded that male and female brains often use fundamentally different mechanisms to produce the same behaviors, such as mating and nurturing offspring. But in this study, bonding ...

Scientists have long sought to reconcile whether male and female brains are comparable, which has implications for how we understand brain organization and operation.