This isn’t an entirely new initiative, but it relates to the most accurate brain atlas ever created. This 3D model of the ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Just a few fibers are enough for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other. This was shown by a new ...

Why Some People Are Born to Be Afraid Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be ...

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in the human brain. These findings do not immediately suggest caffeine ...

Your mental image of your brain probably looks something like what's pictured here. The cerebrum, shown here, is where all the really important stuff is supposed to happen in humans: consciousness, ...