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 percent of its total energy. To stay within budget, the brain must be highly ...

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

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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.