The brain, that incredible three-pound organ, is the seat of your intellect, the master controller of your movement, the ...

UT Health San Antonio Center for Brain Health celebrates 'a new era of hope, healing and discovery' with ribbon-cutting ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

The brain's frontal lobe may be organized in a front-to-back continuum, with concrete decision-making occurring toward the back of the lobe and abstract thought toward the front, according to a recent ...

A new analysis of the brain’s intrinsic communication networks suggests a layered organization behind human intelligence. The ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

Each distinct part of the brain plays a different role in allowing humans to have thoughts and memories, move their arms and legs, sense smell, sight, hearing, touch, and taste, as well as maintain ...

The phrase “left and right brain” refers to the anatomical halves, or hemispheres, of your brain. It’s popularly believed that the left and right hemispheres are distinct, controlling separate aspects ...

As we grow older, it’s natural for our brains to slow down a little. One major reason is the gradual weakening of the ...

May 8 -- Scientists have pinpointed a key area of the brain that appears to govern personality, including one's religious, social and political beliefs, and even style of dress, according to a new ...