How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili goes on a journey through 600 million years of evolution to uncover how the human brain, ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...

After spending more than four months studying the evolution of the brain, Jim Al-Khalili has never been so sure of its ...

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in the human brain. These findings do not immediately suggest caffeine ...