To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on ...

McGill University researchers have identified a brain function that helps explain why childhood stress raises metabolic health risks for some women later in life. A new study found that variations in ...

"I was surprised at our findings because the word 'brain' implies a contiguous organ that likely has a singular origin." The post Stanford Scientists Find That the Human Brain Is Actually Two Separate ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that the nervous system can influence tumors that arise within the brain itself. Neurons feed glioma growth, sensory experience can reshape brain tumor ...