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A study has shown a difference in brain activity in response to increased heart rate between women with general anxiety disorder and those without.

The structure of a bird's brain enables it to identify the location of a specific sound based on the time between the sound arriving at each individual ear.

Researchers have discovered a mechanism that may explain why people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell.

Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that three different autism risk genes actually affect similar aspects of neural formation and the same types of neurons in the developing human brain.

Researchers have developed a set of growth charts for the brain that provide reference models for brain development and aging across the entire human lifespan, based on a very large data set.

Researchers have fabricated a material for computer components that enable the commercial viability of computers that mimic the human brain.

Researchers have found that a monkey’s state of attentiveness may be encoded in the shapes and speeds of slow electrical waves that course over the surface of the brain. Like a surfer that avoids smooth water and favors more active waves, the brain uses faster, choppier waves to process information to which it is paying attention.

New research has found that people are able to convey particular emotions through music by changing certain elements of the musical tune.

Cerebral oedema is a dangerous complication in many brain-related conditions such as strokes. Researchers have developed a new measurement method that enables better understanding of the cellular causes of cerebral oedema.

A new study has found that the act of holding information in mind is accompanied by the coordination of rotating brain waves in the prefrontal cortex