The cover of the new book "Whole-brain modeling. Cartography of the dynamics of mind" poses the central question of what ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are ...

Research from scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The team's discovery comes from their ...

A new study finds autism and schizophrenia may lie at the crux of what makes humans uniquely intelligent. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain unique ...

Any “what makes us different” analysis must guard against excessive “anthropocentrism,” which declares humans are worlds away (and worlds above) all other animals. Such a notion is obviously at the ...