A team of scientists including researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified and validated the first biomarker that permits neural stem and progenitor cells (NPCs) to be tracked, non-invasively, in the brains of living human subjects.

Individual brain chemistry and genes could be key to understanding why some people become addicted to nicotine and why the chemical compound's effects appear to diminish at night, University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say.

Buttery popcorn or fresh green vegetables? Your answer tells a lot about you.
Now, scientists say that the way that thousands of tiny worms have answered that question likely reveals a lot about you and your brain, too.

New research from The University of Western Ontario suggests the sometimes eerie feeling experience when recognizing someone, yet failing to remember how or why, reveals important insight into how memory is wired in the human brain.

Scientists say it is possible that optimistic thoughts are coming from two places in the brain that play an important role in enabling people to accentuate the positive.

While showing an impressive growth prenatally, the human brain is not completed at birth. There is considerable brain growth during childhood with dynamic changes taking place in the human brain throughout life, probably for adaptation to our environments.

You may not be fully dressed without a smile, but a look of horror will make a faster first impression. Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that the brain becomes aware of fearful faces more quickly than those showing other emotions.

If anything sets humans apart from other animals, it must surely be our way with words. For something so ubiquitous, our gift for gab still has strangely obscure roots. The appearance of language has been ascribed to factors ranging from finer control over our voices, the evolution of a grammar module in the brain, even the shift to a meat-based diet that fuels more gray matter.

An Adelaide University PhD student has found part of the brain which learns best at night. Martin Sale has been named Young Scientist of the Year as part of National Science Week.

Ojom GmbH, a leading creator and global publisher of mobile phone games, today announced the launch of Mobile IQ Trainer, offering mobile users a number of intellectually-stimulating and fun games, including Sudoku.

New findings from studies in mice suggest that defects in the brain’s ability to respond to glucose play a role in the development of non-insulin dependent type 2 diabetes, and that a high-fat diet may contribute to impairing brain cells’ ability to regulate glucose throughout the body.

Capuchin monkeys are playful, inquisitive primates known for their manual dexterity, complex social behavior, and cognitive abilities. New research now shows that just like humans, they display a fundamental sex difference in the organization of the brain, specifically in the corpus callosum, the region that connects the two cerebral lobes.