A new study published in Science has found that neurons in the brain do not follow a single strategy when learning. Instead, ...

The brain connects to the spine and is part of the central nervous system (CNS). The various parts of the brain are responsible for personality, movement, breathing, and other crucial processes ...

Scientists have pinpointed a special part of the brain that, when stimulated, appears to produce out-of-body experiences. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July 3, 2023.) Certain drugs can ...

An injury cost Phineas Gage part of his brain, but he lost something else too. A region located inside the prefrontal cortex processes our emotions and helps regulate our behavior. What would ...

A study tracks how the structure of the brain changes during pregnancy, drawing on brain scans gathered before, during and just after one person's pregnancy. When you purchase through links on our ...

“You get a sense of how complicated you are. We’re looking at one tiny part … of a mouse’s brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons and the hundreds of ...

Scientists Map Part of a Mouse's Brain That's So Complex It Looks Like a Galaxy WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest ...