A ground-breaking project to map the growth of the human brain from womb to birth has released its first images. Researchers from around the world can download thousands of images to study how the ...

The sophisticated network of nerves connecting our eyes to our brains evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought – a discovery that 'literally changes the textbook.' A team of ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

Scientists have labored for decades to understand how brain structure and functional connectivity drive intelligence. A new analysis offers the clearest picture yet of how various brain regions and ...

Human brains are bigger than those of our primate relatives, but evidence from extinct human ancestors suggests size isn't everything. To understand human intelligence, scientists are now looking ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

The brain may not be as powerful as previously thought, according to the research (Picture: Getty Images) People think many millions of times slower than the average internet connection, scientists ...

Intermittent fasting has moved far beyond a weight loss trend, with early evidence hinting that time restricted eating may ...

A large-scale study of 5216 brains has found differences in the brains of men and women that might be linked to social and other abilities. Stuart Ritchie and coworkers reported in the 2018 journal ...

UK scientists have released the first batch of "groundbreaking" medical scans that reveal step-by-step how the human brain develops in babies. Researchers around the world can use the data to ...