Researchers have found a possible explanation for why autistic children act and think differently than their peers. For the first time, they've shown that the connections between brain regions that ...

Psychopaths' brains are different from the rest of us, says a new study, which offers clues on how to identify killers before they act. Fresh research says an area deep within the brain - called the ...

A University of Illinois experiment shows that waning focus isn’t caused by a drained “attention tank” at all—it’s the brain getting bored. When volunteers tackled a mind-numbing computer task for ...