The brain stem is a portion of the brain made of four distinct sections: the diencephalon, mesencephalon, pons, and medulla oblongata. Each of these sections has associated functions which are vital ...
New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...
Researchers examined anatomy of neurons from humans, mice and fruit flies. They discovered that the cellular structure of the brain is at a critical point, poised between two phases. New insights ...
A large-scale investigation of carnivoran brain diversity, providing a unified description of folding patterns, their relationship to behaviour and ecology, and the foundation for future ...
The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...
Artist Greg Dunn creates breathtaking renderings of neurons and their surrounding anatomy Victoria Sayo Turner - Mass Media Fellow, AAAS Wispy gold interneurons and astrocyte cells surround large ...
The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...