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 ...

Van Wedeen strokes his half-gray beard and leans toward his computer screen, scrolling through a cascade of files. We’re sitting in a windowless library, surrounded by speckled boxes of old letters, ...

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. Previous research has ...

Continuing to eat a high-calorie diet impairs brain function.”Such research news has been announced.Hearing that diet affects ...

Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it.

Different brain regions are connected by—and interact through—networks of neurons. But the extent to which neuronal wiring drives shared function between these different regions is not well understood ...

These strategies can help improve memory, sharpen focus, and strengthen your mental energy, according to a top neurologist.

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

Short, slow jogs may help induce a positive mood and promote executive function in the brain's prefrontal cortex, an area ...

The hippocampus plays an important role in forming detailed memories, including the specific context surrounding an ...

A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,000 individuals reveals that while brain structure, function, and behavior can all predict a person's biological sex, an individual's degree of sex typicality in ...