Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers. Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

Brain evolution The commonly-held belief that human brain evolution was driven by large frontal lobes is a myth, an anthropological study has found. The study, published today in the Proceedings of ...

At one point, Oakland resident Coleton Tidwell could fit a golf ball through the hole in his earlobe. Tidwell, now 21, was among those who purposely stretched their earlobes with plugs or disc ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), in particular, may be at play, and identifying ways to slow down its progression can help. In ...

When we think about an episode of our life, whether having coffee with a friend last week or our trip to Europe last year, we may re-experience blowing on that steaming mug of cappuccino or glimpsing ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

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