A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could ...

For decades, neuroscientists have known that specific regions in the brain's left hemisphere are responsible for processing language. However, a new study by MIT researchers shows that language ...

While there is no proof that the viral "pinky test" prevents Alzheimer's disease, neurologists say finger coordination ...

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Neurons tucked away in an ancient part of the brain control the ability to pay attention by suppressing distractions and directing focus. The discovery of these neurons in mice by Johns Hopkins ...

Researchers discover rotating spiral brain waves that travel across cortical networks, acting as a space-and-time clock for ...

A recent study suggests that triggering specific, sleep-like brain wave patterns in awake mice can provide the brain with the ...

This short film focuses on the role of nervous system, how it functions, voluntary and involuntary reflexes and the function of specific organs in the nervous system, such as the brain and the eye.

This June as part of Men's Health Month, The Peanut Institute is sharing a variety of ways men can proactively protect and boost their brain.

Every time we move through a familiar environment, the hippocampus consults an internal map, a detailed spatial representation that is built up through repeated experience. But what happens when ...

When the Göttingen anatomist Rudolf Wagner examined a brain in 1856 that was later mistakenly believed to be that of the ...