Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Researchers have developed the first activity-based maps of the prefrontal cortex, challenging traditional descriptions of ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

A Korean research team has identified distinct differences in brain networks among people with depression who have attempted ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts for external voices. Normally, the brain predicts the sound of its own ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category ...

A measure of brain complexity, derived from magnetic stimulation and EEG, can effectively evaluate conscious processing in patients with Alzheimer's disease.