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

In the brain, hunger is signalled by neurons in the hypothalamus that detect a prolonged energy deficit. Conscious feelings ...

Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much ...

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

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

A closer look at Kobe Bryant's awe-inspiring 81-point box score reveals some interesting nuggets we missed the first time.

Adolescence may be far more than a period of pruning away unused brain connections. New research suggests the teenage brain ...

The detailed mapping revealed an unexpected pattern. One specific section of the dendrite contained an unusually dense ...

Boston)—Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the same neural ...

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of the human brain. During this stage, the brain is known to grow ...