When I started studying neurosurgery, what I found difficult was memorizing brain anatomy.Even after reading textbooks, it ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region. Previous research has ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Displayed on a wall in my study is a diagram taken from a children’s encyclopedia dating from the 1930s. It’s labeled “The Central Control Station of Your Body,” and consists of a cutaway view of the ...

To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on communication between different regions. This communication also takes place ...

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

A recent study suggests that the human brain emerges from two separate organs, a discovery that may impact future treatments ...

Both normal aging and Alzheimer’s change how different brain regions communicate with each other. But a new study from Lund University reveals that these alterations follow distinct patterns where ...