In a sweeping new map of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, researchers at the University of Oxford found that mature ...

(Oscar Wong/Moment/Getty Images) A second pregnancy alters the brain in distinctive ways that are not simply a repeat of the first, new research shows. Compared with women having their first child and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are ...

Is she “crazy,” or is her gray matter just being compressed? Neuroscientists in Spain have found a connection between ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have created the first high-resolution molecular atlas of the adult Drosophila ...

The question of the differences between so-called male and female brains has always sparked curiosity and fueled debate. Are we truly wired differently, or are these differences simply the result of ...

We are still in a very early stage of effective brain research. There is so little known in comparison with what is yet to be known, a few drops in a vast ocean. As in most scientific fields, the ...

Neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley and her team at Northwestern University were studying synaptic modulation in female mice when they ran into some trouble. They were attempting to replicate ...