It therefore became of interest to study the uptake, metabolism and synthesis of adrenaline by mammalian brain. We have found that adrenaline is synthesized in the brain.

Using existing datasets, the team identified hundreds of genes which were both upregulated in shrews and had corresponding versions expressed in the brains of a number of other mammals ...

Unlike plants, animals can’t carry out photosynthesis to generate our own oxygen, yet our brains rely on oxygen to make the massive amounts of energy needed to function. In a study published today ...

“The front is where the nervous system crystallizes because that’s the bit of the animal that’s meeting the environment head on,” Shimeld said. The first brain-like mass of neurons likely evolved at ...

In most mammals, the brain structure identified in these bats is more closely associated with vision. When you move your eyes across the page, the precision with which you find the next word is ...