The latest imaging data reveals gender-based differences in the way brain networks are connected.
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Sexual and Emotional Abuse Scar the Brain in Specific Ways
Childhood emotional and sexual abuse mark women’s brains in distinct patterns — with emotional abuse affecting regions involved in self-awareness and sexual abuse affecting areas involved in genital sensation, according to …
Your Brain on Laughter
Are they laughing at you or laughing with you? Your brain can tell the difference.
Babies’ Brains: When Does Consciousness Emerge?
Finding the point at which babies’ reactions change from being purely reflexive to reflecting more intention is leading researches to focus on the first glimmers of conscious thought in infants as young as 5 months old.
Your Brain on Math
Among the 100 million or so nerve cells in the brain, it turns out there is a group dedicated to making sense of numbers.
How Terror Hijacks the Brain
Brain Scans Can Predict Which Criminals Are Likely to Get Re-Arrested
While criminal activity can’t be reduced to a brain image, understanding changes in brain function could improve the way criminals are rehabilitated.
Q&A: What the Brain Reveals About the Self — And Self Control
With the Obama administration planning a major initiative to map the brain, there’s more attention focused on what all of that new information will mean for how we see ourselves and how we take moral and legal responsibility for …
Can’t Do Math? How the Brain Makes Tradeoffs in Favoring Some Skills Over Others
Enhancing one area of the brain means activity in others may suffer.
Watching How the Brain Speaks
Most of us take it for granted, but a new brain map shows how complicated speaking actually is.
How Stress Gets Under the Skin: Q&A With Neuroscientist Bruce McEwen
Brain Map: President Obama Proposes First Detailed Guide of Human Brain Function
To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help.
It’s Neuromagic: How Penn and Teller Are Helping Brain Science (and Vice Versa)
Brain experts and magicians may have much more in common than either thought possible