Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...
Genetic study sheds light on changes that shaped human brain evolution
A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...
Largest study ever done on cannabis and brain function finds impact on working memory
A new study published today in JAMA Network Open explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain ...
Psychology Today16d
Areas of the Brain
The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...
Phys.org17d
Largest study of its kind proves 'bird brain' is a misnomer
The discovery was made possible by comparing historical microscopic sections of the brain with digital imprints of the bird's inside braincase, in the largest such study of its kind covering 136 ...