Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

For the first time, scientists have unraveled the structure of proteins in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. The findings provide clues into how these disease-causing proteins interact ...

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

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

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 ...

A Chinese research team recently constructed the first normative references of brain structure across the entire lifespan for ...

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 ...