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.

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 ...

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.

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

How We Build a Better Future is a rare thing: a serious book on public policy that has also launched a movement. In the US, ...

Importantly, matching up all that anatomy with the activity in the mouse’s brain as it watched movies allowed researchers to trace how the circuitry worked. The Princeton researchers also created ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...