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 ...

AI was the key that unlocked these brain “neighborhoods.” They could also light the way to curing disorders like Alzheimer’s.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many ...

As people drift into sleep, their brains do not shut down all at once. Instead, different brain regions change their activity ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

What distinguishes the mammalian brain from that of other vertebrates is a region called the neocortex, which is the largest and evolutionarily newest part of the human brain. The researchers focused ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our brains process ideas at a rate of just 10 bits per second. Compared to the ...