Renowned neurologist and A.D. White Professor at Large Oliver Sacks attracted students, faculty and residents to Statler Auditorium last night for a lecture entitled "Creativity and the Brain." After ...

talked about the “lowly origins” of humanity, and he was just talking apes. Nick Strausfeld, in the first of the UA College of Science “Evolving Brain” lectures, traces development of the human brain ...

The University of Arizona will present an evening of free public lectures Thursday, covering a variety of topics about the adolescent brain. "Brain Science 101: The Adolescent Brain" will feature ...

The UA College of Science “Mind and Brain” lecture series that’s been filling up Centennial Hall continues this evening with “The Making of a Mind,” presented by LouAnn Gerken, a professor of ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

It may seem unlikely, but bars in San Francisco are sites for academic lectures, part of a new program called Big Brain SF. "People are there for the knowledge, but they're also there for the ...