A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.

The stunning research is supercharging our understanding of human brain disorders and advancing U.S. national interests in ...

At the same time, the prefrontal cortex—responsible for logic, decision-making, and calming the amygdala—grows weaker. That’s the crux of anxiety brain changes: a stronger fear response and ...

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 ...

What distinguishes the mammalian brain from that of other vertebrates ... set spans a cubic millimetre of mouse cortex, about the size of a small poppy seed. Yet it contains an astonishing 84,000 ...