Microplastic concentrations measured in human frontal cortex tissue roughly doubled the levels found just eight years earlier ...

Humans typically perceive others and themselves as more or less physically attractive, yet the neural underpinnings of these attractiveness-related perceptions remain widely unexplored. While some ...

In a humbling moment for our species, the following big news has just been published: When it comes to the frontal lobes, we're not so special after all. Why the mixed findings? One potential reason ...

You're standing at a bus stop, waiting for a ride that seems like it will never come. At first, you're hopeful that it will be here any second. But as the minutes laggardly drag on, doubt creeps in.

For most of us, watching a movie feels effortless. We follow dialogue, read facial expressions, notice music cues and shifting scenery, and somehow fuse it all into a coherent story. But beneath that ...

The phrase the ‘dark side of the moon’ has long captured the human imagination as a celestial representation of the unknown, unexplored, invisible or, most obviously, dark. The phrase, however, is a ...

Study: Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. Image Credit: SIVStockStudio/Shutterstock.com A recent Nature Medicine study assessed the relative ...

Brain atrophy tends to begin in your 30s and 40s, but certain lifestyle changes can slow or even reverse shrinkage.