Brain freeze — the sharp, seconds-long headache we get from ingesting something cold — is rooted in the way our brain senses ...

The study provides new insights into the functions of ancestral cortices but also raises fundamental questions about how and when key neural computations evolved in turtles.

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Recent advances in neuroimaging and molecular analyses have considerably enriched our understanding of cetacean brain anatomy and the evolutionary pressures shaping its distinctive features. Cetaceans ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...