Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

Many sexual assault victims also suffer a form of brain damage, reveals new research. Previous studies have shown that around ...

In the more than six million years since people and chimpanzees split from their common ancestor, human brains have rapidly amassed tissue that helps decision-making and self-control. But the same ...