STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

A new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers one of the most comprehensive views yet of how brain ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...

Purkinje cells, the neurons of the cerebellum, appear to die in an organized pattern, overturning previous beliefs that ...

Place cells are specialized neurons in a brain region known as the hippocampus, which have been found to fire when animals ...