Previous research had suggested that neurons in the brain region holding this internal map, called the primary somatosensory ...

I recently asked myself if I'll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department.

While there is a vast amount of information about the human brain and how it develops and works, much of the organ is still ...

Deep inside your brain, the sense of touch is handled by a strip of tissue only a few millimeters thick. This area, known as ...

Why does the brain of some people stay sharp into their 80s and beyond? An expert explains what 25 years of exploring the ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

The brain is on display at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library, in a whirlwind exhibit built in about nine working days, according to museum curator Anna Dhody.

Parts of the brain not traditionally associated with learning science become active when people are confronted with solving physics problems, a new study shows. The researchers, led by Eric Brewe, PhD ...