Researchers have produced a full map of an adult ... source of our mind's individuality or brain disorders. However, seeing ...

From this information, he was able to map the motor cortex, the very part of the brain you can map in this feature's activity.

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If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

But the mapping of Corina's brain is about to take a turn into ... If there is one part of the brain where the "self" part of Corina's mind began, it would be in the prefrontal cortex—a region ...

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The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with ... expansion and refinement of our model will be a key part of the next steps of this project," Braver added.

Investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears to reduce anxiety without side effects. Their work suggests a new target for treating anxiety ...

MRI scans of human fetuses in utero—here, between 27 and 29 weeks of gestation—show the development of the brain and other organs and body parts ... s brain and map the neural connectivity ...