For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

Deep brain stimulation using surgical wire implants into the frontal lobes of the brain of Alzheimer's patients may help improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities of the patients. This ...

The brain, that incredible three-pound organ, is the seat of your intellect, the master controller of your movement, the interpreter of your senses, and, ultimately, the source of everything that ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

The cerebellum, one of three main parts that make up your brain, is responsible for coordinating movement and balance. Also known as the “little brain,” it plays a vital role in language and attention ...

Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

May 8 -- Scientists have pinpointed a key area of the brain that appears to govern personality, including one's religious, social and political beliefs, and even style of dress, according to a new ...

A team of researchers from the Florida State University College of Medicine has found that an amino acid produced by the brain could play a crucial role in preventing a type of epileptic seizure.

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...