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While the brain itself doesn’t have any nerve sensors to feel pain, blood vessels in the head and structures that protect and surround the brain do sense pain. When these tissues detect injury or ...

Nostalgia Meets Neuroscience The popular image of the 1960s and 70s childhood is one of free-range freedom: wood-paneled station wagons, bicycles without helmets, and a general ...

During each of these phases, our brains show markedly different characteristics in their architecture, according to the new ...

How a decade of autism evidence led to a change the public barely noticed. Mirroring decades of evidence that genetics, environment, and cognition shape autism’s diverse pathways.

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

The parents of a three-year-old boy born with a devastating, life-limiting genetic condition say they are now excited for his ...

Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.