A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light ...

Differences in the distribution of certain proteins and markers in the brain may explain why some people first experience vision changes instead of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, finds a new ...

Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

A person's level of political engagement can be informed by myriad factors, from education to environment. Now, a new ...

Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, parts of the brain that are both linked to language, are typically located in the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere controls the movement of the left side ...

In contrast, they are sparser in areas responsible ... in the macaque brain probably reflects the prioritizing of more pressing, survival-driven tasks managed by the visual cortex and other ...

This focus area will transform our understanding of brain development, aging, and health, and leverage this knowledge to improve treatments for brain diseases. To do this, we will pursue four ...