Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your ...

Exercise strengthens the brain as well as the body. Physical activity increases levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, ...

Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or ...