Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

Scientists have produced the first quantitative map of the human uncinate fasciculus, a white matter tract linking brain regions involved in decision-making and emotion. Using an advanced optical ...

Dr. Michael Merzenich was named today as a recipient of the Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: The brain uses two key pathways for neural communication—neurotransmitters and nerve impulses—but what if there was a third, unknown channel? A review ...

Huntington disease is a rare, inherited brain disorder that progressively destroys nerve cells, leading to worsening movement, cognitive and psychiatric symptoms. Caused by a mutation in the ...

Implications for Diabetes Treatment and Brain Health Although most diabetes medications do not target the brain, this research shows that metformin has been influencing brain pathways all along.

Not many people would bet on new human anatomy being discovered in the twenty-first century. But the last couple of decades have been a little wild. This is a story about the discovery of two new ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Homo Sapiens became the dominant mammalian species on Earth largely because having a powerful, flexible, ...