An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

Reading a sentence, following a conversation, solving a problem or deciding what to do next: all of these rely on working ...

Why do human brains vary in size and shape, and how did our brains expand over evolutionary time to give us our enhanced cognitive abilities? Researchers at the UNC Department of Genetics and the UNC ...

A tiny region deep within the brain has surprised scientists by revealing a remarkably sophisticated communication system.

Researchers have conducted a neuroimaging study to investigate how the brain is organized and how that integrated system gives rise to intelligence. Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set ...

The connection between physical movement and brain function has emerged as one of neuroscience’s most significant discoveries. The human brain, despite representing only 2% of body weight, consumes ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be ...

A subset of more than 1,000 neurons, representing just a snapshot of the complexity mapped within a cubic millimeter of mouse brain tissue Allen Institute In 1979, biologist Francis Crick claimed it ...

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Continuing to eat a high-calorie diet impairs brain function.”Such research news has been announced.Hearing that diet affects the brain might make some people a little worried.“Should I avoid ...