Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

A new book traces the surprisingly short history of the environment as a shared conceptual construct.

Authors of a small study say the two abilities likely evolved in tandem.

Sleeping on a rhythmically swaying surface helps synchronize sleep oscillations in the human brain, a study finds.

The observation could pave the way for a blood test to predict disease progression in people with a genetic predisposition to developing the neurodegenerative disorder.

The method combines two approaches to reveal a high-resolution map of all 40 million synapses.

Two studies find that connectivity patterns remain stable over time in people with ASD, while in typical subjects they change.

Men’s pain tolerance decreases when exposed to a setting where they’ve previously had a painful experience.

The UCSD psychiatry researcher championed the concept of mental illness as a neurobiological condition and helped form the US government’s Decade of the Brain initiative.

Changes in gene expression also hint at how the brains of people with ASD develop differently from those of other people.