Lucid dreams are associated with regions of the brain that control memory, emotion, and self-awareness, meaning that the ...

Creativity is more than just a spark. New brain scan studies reveal the complicated interplay between multiple brain systems.

Facial emotion representations expand from sensory cortex to prefrontal regions across development, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex matures with development to enable a full understanding of ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) isn’t caused by just one faulty switch in the brain; it’s more like a tangled orchestra of genes and cells thrown off-key by trauma. With many genetic players ...

Children with autism have larger brains and more neurons for their age than is normal, results of a small preliminary study indicate. Postmortem examinations from seven boys with autism revealed that ...