The cerebral cortex is divided into two equal halves, called the left and right hemispheres. A collection of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres. The two regions ...

A new study published in the journal Mindfulness has found that older adults with early signs of cognitive impairment show ...

The human brain ... large regions—the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the occipital lobe—with one of each on either half of the brain. The cerebral cortex is the ...

A new neuroimaging study from China has found that an eight-week course of bright light therapy helped reduce depressive ...

Different areas of the brain are highly interconnected, and these connections form functional networks that ... but many parts of the brain or cortex are not fully active in the absence of ...

While most peeks at the cerebral cortex have involved brains at rest ... "Our work is the first attempt to get a layout of different areas and networks of the brain during naturalistic conditions ...

The 10 percent brain myth is false. We use our entire brain. Neuroscience points to several methods of enhancing brain ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they're often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

Your visual cortex relays that information to secondary visual processing areas. These secondary areas interpret depth, distance, location, and the identity of the objects you see. The brain is ...

This enigmatic process appears to be controlled by the thalamus, a central region of the brain already known for its function as a filter between sensory signals and the cerebral cortex ...