When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...

The cerebral cortex, the brain’s outermost region responsible for higher cognitive functions, depends on a highly ordered, ...

However, internal brain structures revealed important differences. Social huntsman spiders had distinctly larger brain areas called "arcuate bodies" and "mushroom bodies," both regions of the brain ...

Researchers discover that the RNA surveillance system NMD and the protein UPF2 are essential for guiding neuronal migration and forming the brain's layered cortex.

Explore how the human nervous system mirrors the structure of the Vedas. A neuroscientist from Harvard and MIT discusses the ...

Researchers found that nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, via the UPF2 protein, is crucial for neuronal migration and cortical ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...

Being an expert birdwatcher may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests.

An MRI study found that a second pregnancy further remodels the maternal brain, with smaller social network changes but ...