I really enjoyed Horizon: Secrets of the brain on BBC iPlayer. Presented by physicist Jim Al-Khalili (pictured), the two-part ...

Researchers have discovered alarming levels of microplastics in human brain tissue, with dementia patients showing 10 times higher concentrations. Driver jumps raised bridge during police chase ‘Not ...

Look behind the camera to see the complex, crowded, and complicated machinations that go into theatrical productions of our minds—and how they can contribute to our suffering.

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

Perhaps no element of human life inspires as many questions, or holds as much mystery, as the brain. This vital organ is the control center of the human body, helping us with basic functions like ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. UCLA researchers decried federal suspensions of medical and scientific research grants. The Trump administration ...

In brief: Neuralink, the brain implant company from Elon Musk, has revealed that 12 people across the world have now received its chips. It added that the patients have collectively used their devices ...

Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of mice while they were making decisions. This achievement involved using electrodes ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...