Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

Smaller, shallow brain folds in the posteromedial cortex show greater thinning with age and Alzheimer’s disease, and their ...

Illinois engineers fused ultrafast imaging with smart algorithms to peek at living brain chemistry, turning routine MRIs into ...

Someone who has brainstem death cannot have any form of bodily response; it is mostly their heart that is beating.

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Brain swelling, or cerebral edema, is a medical emergency. Learn about the evidence-based treatments doctors use to reduce ...

A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

They explain that because of the thinness, the skull was likely much less effective at protecting the brain from external forces—like a blunt-force blow—than a normal skull would be.

They focused on the thickness of her cranial bones and something called the diploë, or the spongy bone tissue found between the external and internal calvaria layers (think ... less effective at ...

Your brain burns fat during a marathon For his study, Matute and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 recreational runners using MRI before and after a marathon, and again two weeks to two months ...

In microbubble (MB) cavitation-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening, prior knowledge of the skull’s sound speed properties is required to correct phase aberration and achieve accurate ...