Differences in behavior among people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are closely related to differences in neuroanatomy – the shape of a brain – a team of Boston College neuroscientists report ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

The way the brain’s shape changes as it ages could help to paint the picture of its overall health and offer early warning signs for dementia—years before typical symptoms emerge. Brain scan analysis ...

The anatomy of your brain reflects your introspective capacity, or ability to self-judge the merits of your decisions, new research indicates. The study found that people with stronger reflective, or ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

For at least 20 years, neuroscientists have been trying to discover whether there are specific anatomical differences between heterosexual and homosexual men and women. An early post-mortem study ...

The planum temporale area in the left hemisphere (shown in red), an area essential for language in humans, is larger than that in the right hemisphere (shown in green) in the majority of baboons. Only ...

Not according to neuroscience. Reading, science shows, doesn’t just fill your brain with information; it actually changes the way your brain works for the better as well. The short- and long-term ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Results of the clinical trial that assessed the safety of Synchron’s endovascular brain-computer interface in people with severe paralysis will be presented Sept. 30 at the Congress of ...