Researchers have developed a method for mapping the orientation and organization of tissue fibers, furthering our ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

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 new ...

The Bell Jar project team at UC Santa Cruz: from left to right are postdoc Richard Dickson, graduate student Matthew Jacobs, Alec Soronow, and Euiseok Kim. (Photo by Carolyn Lagatutta) UC Santa Cruz ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people at high risk of depression because of a family history, spirituality may offer some protection for the brain, a new study hints. Parts of the brain's outer layer ...

The human brain is a marvel of nature, a labyrinth of neurons and synapses that dictates every aspect of our behavior, ...

Scientists used to think that we were born with all the brain cells we'd ever have. But in 1998, researchers showed that even adults keep making new ones. That discovery launched a massive effort to ...