Data from postmortem brain tissues adds to the evidence that inflammation is associated with autism.

In Chapter 1, “Why Is God Two-Faced?,” author John Wathey argues that the answer to this question is the key to an ethological understanding of religion.

If we ask the right questions, modern tools could help researchers solve mysteries such as why many people believe in a God that both provides unconditional love and levies eternal damnation.

Inactive synapses—found on tiny neuronal projections called filopodia—are abundant in the adult brain, a mouse study suggests.

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A mouse study concludes color-detecting cones in the eye and a subset of neurons in the brain’s thalamus are why green light exposure has an analgesic effect.

Dialing up the activity of a protein called SYK in the brain’s “janitors” could provide an avenue to treat Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

A method appears to be the first to noninvasively reconstruct language from brain activity.

Epigenetic events, such as methylation, during early brain development in mice occur in genomic regions associated with BMI in humans, according to a new study.

A previously undetected pathway in the mouse brain bypasses the visual cortex to directly activate contagious itch.

Starving glioblastoma tumors of the cholesterol made by astrocytes could suppress brain cancer progression.

A survey of more than 200 whale skulls has unveiled bursts of evolution over the past 50 million years.

Specific neurons in the brainstem control sickness behaviors not directly caused by a pathogen, such as tiredness and lack of appetite, a mouse study finds.