It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and motor ...

The complex human brain controls who we are: how we think, feel, and act. It gives meaning to our world and our place in it. The brain also controls all major body functions. The brain is housed in ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers piece together a road map of typical brain development in children during a critical window of maturation. In a first-of-its-kind study, Children's Hospital ...

Like with fingerprints, no two people have the same brain anatomy, a study by researchers of the University of Zurich has shown. This uniqueness is the result of a combination of genetic factors and ...

A groundbreaking study questions the link between anatomical abnormalities in autism, finding minimal brain structure differences. Published in Cerebral Cortex by Israeli researchers Shlomi Haar and ...