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Overview of average regional sex differences in grey matter volume. Areas of larger volumes in women are in red and areas of larger volume in men are in blue.

Males and females differ in specific brain structures

11 Feb 2014

New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure.

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Synaesthesia is more common in autism

20 Nov 2013

People with autism are more likely to also have synaesthesia, suggests new research in the journal Molecular Autism .

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Cluster of greatest grey matter volume reduction in patients with ADHD compared with control subjects located in the left middle frontal gyrus, overlaid on a rendered standardized brain template.

Imaging study shows dopamine dysfunction is not the main cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

28 Oct 2013

Research suggests that the main cause of the disorder may lie instead in structural differences in the grey matter in the brain.

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Areas highlighted in red on the right and left brain hemispheres show the frontal and temporal brain networks involved in the processing of linguistic information in intonation

Tuning into the melody of speech

15 Oct 2013

In a groundbreaking new study, Cambridge researchers have mapped out the neurobiological basis of a key aspect of human communication: intonation.

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Autism affects different parts of the brain in women and men

09 Aug 2013

New research sheds light on previously under-researched area of study – females with autism.

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Brain mapping of teenagers

Scientists explore the inner workings of the teenage brain

15 May 2013

New study to reveal what happens to the human brain as we mature; research will also provide insight into the development of mental disorders

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Molecular Psychiatry

Chronic cocaine use may speed up ageing of brain

24 Apr 2012

Research shows chronic users’ brains age dramatically faster than their non-drug using peers.

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Brain

Wiring the brain

12 Apr 2012

Scientists have created a simple new model of the human brain which reproduces the statistics of its complex network organization.

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Siblings’ brain scans could hold the key to drug addiction

03 Feb 2012

Research provides insight into why some individuals with a family history of drug abuse are at higher risk of addiction.

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Neurons, in vitrio colour!

The man with the golden brain

13 Dec 2011

What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain...

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Functional neuroimaging of the human brain

The communicative brain

29 Nov 2011

What is it about the human brain that makes language possible? Two evolutionary systems working together, say neuroscientists Professor William...

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Digitally enhanced MRI of the human head showing the brain and spinal cord in blue/green and the other tissues in red and pink.

Serotonin levels affect the brain’s response to anger

15 Sep 2011

Research provides new insight into why some individuals may be more aggressive than others.

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