For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

Deep inside the brain, every thought and memory begins with a burst of electrical activity. For years, scientists have tried ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

“Language is a huge field, and we are novices in this. We know a lot about how different areas of the brain are involved in linguistic tasks, but the details are not very clear,” says Mohsen Jamali, a ...

The ability to make simple reaching motions or drive a car depends on the brains ability to guide action in a region of the brain called cerebellum. When the interaction of the cells within the ...

Implantable technologies have significantly improved our ability to study and even modulate the activity of neurons in the brain, but neurons in the spinal cord are harder to study in action. "If we ...

It's hard to take electrical measurements of what a single neuron is doing, especially while it's still alive and wired up to its fellows. To move beyond historically difficult and damaging methods of ...

New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

New research shows that pain-sensing neurons in the gut can kick-start inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and ...