Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

The size and structure of our brains go a long way to explaining what makes us human. But what caused our brains to become what they are? KPBS Sci-Tech Reporter Thomas Fudge spoke to UC San Diego ...

The origin of some neuropsychiatric diseases, such as autism, bipolar disorder, or depression, and certain neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, can be found in very early stages of ...

Clinicians use electroencephalography (EEG) to assess brain activity in epilepsy and sleep pathologies, and this powerful ...

Scientists studying the cellular origins of pineoblastoma discovered a dependency applicable to anatomically distinct brain tumor types, which may be therapeutically targetable. During early human ...

The first modern men / Bernard Vandermeersch -- Image of the human fossil brain : endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young and adult subjects / Roger Saban -- Toward a synthetic theory of ...