In Parkinson's disease, the cerebral cortex can take over tasks from a deeper part of the brain that has been damaged, where cells that make dopamine have been lost. The strength of compensation by ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

Researchers at the University of New South Wales Sydney are testing a new way to treat chronic nerve pain by training the ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

David A. Leopold is in the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethseda, Maryland 20814, USA. In the 1930s, the neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...