Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes ...

Alzheimer’s disease may begin changing the brain years earlier than doctors have been able to see with standard scans. A new ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

What happens in the brain during the earliest stages of schizophrenia? A research group at the University of Seville set out to answer this question using a new MRI-based method that compares the ...

A sweeping new analysis of more than 4,000 brain scans reveals that our brains’ neural networks don’t simply mature and then decline; they reorganize through a series of distinct life-stage “epochs,” ...

The relative brain size of two dog ancestry groups did not differ significantly, yet MRI scans found a different distribution ...