Recent research has unearthed an intriguing connection between music and brain health. Specifically, playing a musical ...

Your brainstem is the central apparatus of your entire nervous system. One portion of your brainstem is called the pons. The pons links your brain to your spinal cord. Your pons handles all of your ...

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 ...

A landmark pilot study has demonstrated how a brain implant can deliver targeted bursts of electrical stimulation to improve cognitive functions. In real-time the implant senses electrical biomarkers ...

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 ...

What Is Locked-In Syndrome? Locked-in syndrome is a serious neurological condition that occurs when a section of your brain stem is damaged. This is a rare occurrence that is usually the result of a ...

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is ...

The cerebellum, a brain region located at the back of the head that has long been known to support the coordination of muscle ...

One of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease ... while Farris focuses on how different circuits in the ...

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 ...