To determine which brain areas are necessary for a certain ability, researchers study patients with brain lesions (an area of damage in the brain) caused by stroke or brain tumours. This approach ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

A new study from Mass General Brigham (MGB), which identified 17 shared risk factors all linked to stroke, dementia and ...

Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories. When you pick up a new hobby, try a recipe a friend ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced by cellular organelles called mitochondria. However, surprisingly ...

Scientists have found the region of the brain responsible for a person’s ability to deal with new problems while studying ...

It’s not surprising, he felt, that we have neurons responding to concepts in an area of the brain associated with memory — after all, we do tend to remember concepts and forget details.

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

More than a million people of nearly all ages lace up their trainers and ... They found that in a dozen areas of the brain, in regions associated with motor coordination, senses and emotions ...