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In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

An ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. That is the power of the human brain, which is composed of approximately 100 billion nerve cells. Each neuron forms ...

What’s so special about the human brain? What distinguishes the human brain from the brains of other animals? These intriguing questions have been approached from many directions, but here the focus ...

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Brain scientists have long debated when, and how strongly, sex starts to shape the human brain. A growing body of imaging work now points to a clear answer: measurable differences in brain size and ...