A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and orchestrates the movements to pronounce them.

According to Dr. Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, a more precise understanding of what happens in different areas of the cerebral cortex during ...

A scientific team supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new, ultra-high-resolution ...

Study insights could improve current understanding of neurodegenerative diseases as well as interpretations of brain scans.

Speaking requires a precise sequence of muscle movements, long thought to be coordinated by Broca’s area in the brain.

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

Your walking pace reveals your brain’s health and your overall age. Midlife speed tests link slower miles per hour to brain ...

All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions.

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

Is your brain aging faster than your chronological age? New research shows it could raise your risk of death and dementia significantly—and offers promise for early intervention.

Life may unfold as a continuous stream, but our memories tell a different story. We do not recall the past as one long, unbroken text. Instead, we remember it as a series of meaningful events, like ...

Mississippi Today, in partnership with Rethink Mississippi (an initiative sponsored by the nonprofit Working Together ...