A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a ...

Cells that control hunger have a strong influence on the brain’s higher cortical regions. The findings could lead to new treatments for psychiatric illness.

Your brain is directly connected to various parts of your head, neck, and trunk by twelve pairs of nerves – these are your cranial nerves. They play an important role in sensing, controlling ...

According to the British Medical Journal, there are at least three levels of brain function: The brain controls movement and deciphers input from our senses, it manages our cognitive and emotional ...

In doing so, they demonstrate that stimulation of the right bits of the brain can produce dramatic—and seemingly permanent—improvements in the ability of patients to walk again.

How People Born Without Hands Reveal Brain Flexibility Georgetown scientists show the brain organizes motor functions by actions, not only by body parts.

Virginia Tech researchers are investigating how overloaded mitochondria in the brain’s memory circuits may spark early ...

We may think about our closest friends and family using different parts of the brain than we do for the rest of our social circle, brain scans suggest. The deadliest mushroom, the death cap, is ...

Reorganisation of Brain Functions: After a stroke or brain injury, the brain areas affected may no longer function as they did before. “Neuroplasticity enables other brain parts to take over the ...

Researchers suspect energy failures in brain “power plants” may explain why memory pathways collapse so early in Alzheimer’s.