Variations in one of the vasopressin receptors can make you more faithful to your partner.

The left hemisphere is primarily responsible for creative behaviour whereas the right hemisphere is more analytical.

The mirror box is a really effective tool for treating phantom limb pain.

Headache pain arises from nociceptors located near neurons throughout your cortex.

The genitals are located below the foot in the somatotopic map of the primary somatosensory cortex.

Humans are better at detecting some smells than other animals.

People with superior autobiographical memories have a larger hippocampus than other humans.

Capsaicin from hot peppers binds to “spicy” receptors on taste buds. 

When asked to describe an imaginary scene, such as sitting on a beach when in a clinical setting, patients with hippocampal based amnesia provide a poor description that is less intact than in an undamaged patient.

Humans have a higher density of neurons than all other mammals.