On Sunday’s edition of Jewell’s Jems on the WGN Weekend Morning News, Audree Lee shared insight into the connection between ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may influence brain development and behavioral health more than a decade later ...

We all know that good oral care, that includes majorly brushing, is important to keep those pesky cavities at bay. However, do you know that oral hygiene also has a close connection with brain and ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) This proportionally bigger brain is what anthropologists argued enabled us and our ...