The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex.

When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when ...

Explore brain anatomy, from the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem, ... It also contains the substantia nigra, an area rich in dopamine neurons that is affected by Parkinson’s disease. [3] ...

The brain's overall size begins to shrink when you’re in your 30s or 40s, and the rate of shrinkage increases once you reach age 60. Brain shrinkage doesn’t happen to all areas of the brain at ...

These areas can stay lit up for a long time for some couples.” Can you fall in love at first sight? According to an older Gallup poll , 52% of people in the United States believe in love at ...

The human brain is a hugely complex organ, made of different areas that handle different functions. The cerebellum is the part that handles many aspects of movement. This article provides a brief ...

Distinct, though neighboring, areas of the brain are activated when processing music and language, with specific sub-regions engaged for simple melodies versus complex melodies, and for simple ...

By studying the brain anatomy of newborn baby baboons, a research group including several CNRS scientists was able to predict what hand they would use to communicate after they had been weaned.

By studying the brain anatomy of newborn baby baboons, a research group including several CNRS scientists was able to predict what hand they would use to communicate after they had been weaned.