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 ...

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

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- or ADHD -- is a condition that causes both kids and adults to be easily distracted, fidgety, and impulsive. What looks, on the surface, like a ...

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 ...

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 ...