The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors ...

Wayne State University researchers are using photoacoustic imaging to observe brain activity and, in the process, discovering ...

And through pathways of nerve connection to other areas of the brain, the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually ...

Self-control is primarily rooted in the prefrontal cortex—the planning, problem-solving, and decision making center of the brain—which is significantly larger in humans than in other mammals.