Last year, we wrote about a technology called tDCS-- transcranial direct current stimulation -- that improves your mental acuity by passing a small electrical current through your brain. The US Army ...

A combined team of researchers from the University of Vienna and National Museums Scotland, has found that the brain size of domestic cats is smaller than their African ancestors. In their paper ...

For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion, University of Missouri researchers ...

CALCULATION of the estimated cranial capacity of Olduvai hominid 7 (FLKNN I) was attempted on the basis of the ratio of biparietal endocast volume to total endocast volume 1,2. No serious attempt has ...

Cranial Capacity of Filipinos.—Dr. Juan C. Nañagas of the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila, has made a study of the cranial capacity of a collection of some six hundred ...

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