Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

These features mean that crossword puzzles cause large areas of your cortex to be active, and stimulate new connections in your brain. The hippocampus will then remember those new connections ...

One of the areas that ballooned over the past few million years is the cerebral cortex, the wrinkly outer layer of the brain. It processes sensory information ... they report today (March 4) in the ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have created a four-dimensional ... of the brain and signaling future areas of lesion ...

The parts of the brain needed to remember words have been identified. Those areas are affected by a common form of epilepsy, ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition ...

This focus area will transform our understanding of brain development, aging, and health, and leverage this knowledge to improve treatments for brain diseases. To do this, we will pursue four ...

They grow slowly, can often be removed, and rarely spread to the brain tissue around them. They can cause problems if they press on certain areas of the brain. Depending on the part of the brain ...

The researchers then compared the memory test scores to the sizes of different brain areas, to see if smaller brain parts were linked to worse memory. They found that smaller sizes in certain ...