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The findings could be applied to treating dementia in humans.
A photo taken during surgery takes the 2012 Wellcome Trust photography award.
Social touch and emotion are more closely connected in the brain than thought.
When it comes to social behaviors, like mating and aggressive acts, the underlying decision making process in the brain is the same in birds, reptiles, mammals and fish.
A copy error created a duplicate gene that changed our brains.
Your age, emotional state and even type of activity can affect how you perceive time.
Here are the sex differences in the brain that are backed by science.
Some personality traits appear to be linked with the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
Scientists are learning more and more about what goes on while we sleep.
A drug used to treat Parkinson's disease may make people less impulsive.
In fact, such self-directed speech is good for your noggin'.
Women smokers may not respond as well nicotine-replacement therapies as men, a new study suggests.
The discovery was made through a technology called diffusion spectrum MRI which looks at brain images in fine detail.
Don't worry, human mind control is still a ways off, researchers say.
A deep investigation of the brain's structure reveals a surprisingly simple organization of sheets of fibers, twisted with the convolutions of the brain like folded cloth.
Fatty diets make brain regions break out with new brain-cell growth.
Do you swoon at the site of a cooing infant?
Alzheimer's afflicts millions, two thirds of them women.
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