The location of an aneurysm is also important. Aneurysms on blood vessels located in the back half of the brain (vertebral arteries, the basilar artery, and the posterior communicating artery) are at ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Tap the index finger of your right hand. It's a simple maneuver, yet carrying it out requires a vastly complicated series of actions. First, the image of the words on the screen (telling you to ...

The orange and brown regions you see in this view (above) of the brain cut in half lengthwise are comparable ... and production (four in the back) of vocalizations. These seven neuron clusters ...

These connections link together its various lobes and also link sensory input and motor output with the brain’s message centers, allowing information to come in and be sent back out. One major ...

By performing genetic screening experiments in zebrafish, researchers revealed that when Cachd1 was mutated, the right half of the brain lost its normal asymmetric development and instead mirrored ...

Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...