LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) — As September marks Concussion Awareness Month, health professionals are reminding families and athletes that what happens immediately after a head injury can have lasting ...

Legendary D.C. punks Bad Brains are issuing their long sought-after first demo tape. Recorded in 1979 at Arlington, Virginia’s Inner Ear Studios and newly remastered by Ian MacKaye, Are You Ready: The ...

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans. As is so often the case, these rumors ...

(CN) — For decades, scientists thought the entire brain started from the same type of progenitor cell. But in findings published Friday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers say the brain’s front and ...

You can possess all the intellectual skill in the world and still be completely lacking in the realm of common sense. People who have high IQs but little practical knowledge and poor judgment will ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines. The animals may help reveal the ...

My mind is always moving a mile a minute. It can make having conversations frustrating not only for me, but for others. Sometimes, long-winded explanations and stories can get under my skin. I know it ...

Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...