To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Recent research published in Nature Metabolism reveals that the human brain consumes its own myelin when glucose levels drop significantly during stre ...

The findings suggest that the human brain is neither completely pre-wired nor a blank slate, but rather a dynamic system.

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

whereas brain activity is typically studied using imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), that have millimetre-scale resolution. To relate complex human brain dynamics to ...

When the human brain is starved of energy, it may start to 'eat' its own fatty tissue for fuel, according to a pilot study on ...

Everything the brain does-from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions-requires energy, all produced ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. The heart is the central organ ...

Researchers have mapped mitochondria across cells in the brain, revealing that high cognition areas are supplied with more ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged ...