New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in ...

UCLA researchers used stem cell–derived brain models to study SCN8A-linked epilepsy. They found that gene variants caused ...

The View of the Authors In our book Demystifying Psychiatry, we define psychiatry as “the medical specialty that deals with disorders affecting the human mind and behavior.” ...

A team of scientists identifies a molecular mechanism that helps explain how airborne toxins influences Lewy body dementia ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University show that the repetitive part of ...

Many of those who've exhibited lifelong antisocial, aka sociopathic, behavior -- lying, impulsiveness, aggression, lacking concern for others -- have abnormal brain structures, according to a new ...

Words like “training,” “fine-tuning” and “optimization” are frequently used to describe human behavior. But we don’t train, fine-tune or optimize in the way that AI does.

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...