People have long been tempted to link brain size and cognition. The intuitive notion that a “big brain” means “more intelligent” was first threatened some time ago, when we discovered ...

A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the connections between brain biology and political beliefs.

Finally, it didn’t include people who had deprived childhoods. If a bigger brain is protective, such inequalities could put ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

This study suggests that problems with the Usp9X gene might be one possible cause of autism. While this doesn’t explain every ...

Allman, 66, compares the brains of people and other animals to gain ... They are four times bigger than most other brain cells, and even in species that have the cells, they are rare.

At first, the authors found an inverse correlation between brain size and camouflage: The bigger the brain, the more the frog stood out. Frogs with bigger brains, they posit, can afford to be showier ...