Is psychopathy born or bred? Science may finally have the answer thanks to brain scanning technology that reveals anatomical ...

PHILADELPHIA— Important brain structures that are key for signaling in the brain are narrower and less dense in females, and more likely to be damaged by brain injuries, such as concussion. Long-term ...

Luis M. García Marín receives funding from The University of Queensland (UQ). Miguel E. Rentería receives funding from the Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation, the Shake It Up Australia ...

From toe length to handwriting and sleeping position, there have been countless studies linking various features with specific personality traits. But these are of course just associations between ...

Firstly, the current normative brain references are primarily derived from Western populations. However, the distinctive ...

Forget crowd sizes — a new study confirms that conservatives boast slightly larger amygdalas, the part of the brain that plays a key role in identifying and reacting to potential threats, compared ...

Watching too much television can change the structure of a child's brain in a damaging way, according to a new study. Researchers found that the more time a child spent viewing TV, the more profound ...

Healthy aging induces parallel changes in brain functional activity and structural morphology, yet the interplay between ...

For a long time, the claim has been made that the brains of conservative people are different than those of progressives. Using MRI scans of almost 1,000 Dutch people, researchers from the University ...

Political views are tied to brain structure, study suggests. April 7, 2011— -- Amid the looming prospect of a government shutdown, the clock is ticking for Democrats and Republicans to strike a ...

Our personality traits are linked to differences in the thickness and volume of various parts of our brains, an international study has suggested. Those with thicker and less wrinkled outer layers of ...