Cortex

Taking risky decisions is an essential part during this economic downturn. People use different strategies while making difficult economic decisions to cope up with the situation. Surprisingly, a scientific study can predict what sort of strategy people tended ...

New research from the University of Illinois suggests that exposure to oestrogen may impair some cognitive functions. ...

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute say that they have gained fresh insights into the evolutionary origins of the brain, and how it evolved into the remarkably complex structure found in humans. ...

Fairness is more than just a dogma, it"s an emotion wired in the human brain - at least that"s what a new study suggests. ...

Bionic eye implants that will enable blind people to see without an optic nerve is on the horizon, for US scientists have developed software that will perceive moving images just like a cat's brain. ...

Washington : In a move to develop a more personalised approach towards medication depending upon genetic information or other biological markers, researchers have shed light on the potential use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to match treatments for patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). ...