Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

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

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

Political views are tied to brain structure, study suggests. April 7, 2011— -- Amid the looming prospect of a government shutdown, the clock is ticking for Democrats and Republicans to strike a ...