A brain that includes such overlapping functional centers may be more efficient, Freedman suggests. "It makes mapping these regions more complicated for scientists like us, but it may boost the ...

We also know the brain’s language regions work together as a co-ordinated network, with some parts involved in multiple functions and a level of redundancy in some processing pathways.

Drawings of the monkey brain, left, in which each color represents a group of related brain regions. The graph on the right shows how these regions are connected to each other. Each region is ...

The prefrontal cortex region of the human brain is responsible for a range of complex functions from decision-making to certain types of memory. When something goes wrong in this part of the brain, it ...

The brain’s body map doesn’t reorganize itself after limb amputation, a study found, challenging a textbook idea in ...

Researchers discovered two brain regions that work as a “neural compass,” keeping people oriented in virtual city navigation.

Using neuroimaging and virtual reality (VR), researchers found two brain areas that help maintain a sense of direction while ...

MSU researchers discovered that microbes begin shaping the brain while still in the womb, influencing neurons in a region ...

The researchers found widespread structural and functional alterations in the participants with opioid use disorder. Several brain regions — including the thalamus, brainstem, cerebellum, and the ...