An fMRI scan indirectly measures brain activity by tracking where blood flows to different regions of the brain. If a part of the brain is active, blood flow to that part increases. "The movie ...
By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional ...
With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...
New research supports brain cell transplantation as a treatment for some neurological disorders. A team from McGill ...
The claustrum complex, a small yet powerful region in the brain, has intrigued scientists for years. Found across mammalian ...
Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when ...
By analyzing fMRI scans of people watching films, neuroscientists have created a comprehensive functional map of the brain, ...
Cherica Adams was shot four times in Charlotte. She saved her unborn baby, the child of Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, with a ...
Cognitive functions such as memory, learning, and information processing, traditionally associated with the brain, can also be found in the other parts of the body. A new study establishes that “all ...
This is a step toward an understanding of the brain that ultimately describes the mechanistic basis of human cognition and ...