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 muscles, ...

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery therapy.

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

Conventional wisdom among neuroscientists suggests that the brain’s motor functions are organized around the body, meaning certain brain areas control the hand; others the foot. An emerging ...

Deep inside your brain, the sense of touch is handled by a strip of tissue only a few millimeters thick. This area, known as the primary somatosensory cortex, processes every tactile signal that ...

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 still ...

One of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease is the entorhinal cortex — a region that plays a big role ...