A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

AI was the key that unlocked these brain “neighborhoods.” They could also light the way to curing disorders like Alzheimer’s.

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

As people drift into sleep, their brains do not shut down all at once. Instead, different brain regions change their activity ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

What distinguishes the mammalian brain from that of other vertebrates is a region called the neocortex, which is the largest and evolutionarily newest part of the human brain. The researchers focused ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline. “This is groundbreaking,” says Ashley Bush, a neuroscientist at the University of Melbourne in ...