Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

New research uncovers how the brain processes learning by identifying the exact moment an animal learns a new skill.

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

That’s partly because most scientists who physically get right inside skulls to study the brains inside them do so with the brains of non-human animals, so most brain research we hear about ...

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making.

and which the researchers believe will hold true across animal species including humans, is newly published in Nature. "Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the ...