Researchers have uncovered a brain circuit in mice that acts as a “dial” for consumption, controlling the urge to eat sweets, ...

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 ...

The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the world, and it consumes a lot of the energy that people take in by eating food (about 20 percent of the daily calorie intake). To make it more ...

Preschoolers in the school’s 3-year-old classroom learn about the brain by singing “The Brain Song” to the tune of “Bingo” ...

Parts of the brain that are used more develop more synapses, hence more mass. Rather than systematically degenerating, older adults' brains seem to preserve what they use, at least in part. Brain ...

Deep inside your brain, the sense of touch is handled by a strip of tissue only a few millimeters thick. This area, known as the primary somatosensory cortex, processes every tactile signal that ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet — combining a small set of simple motions ...

The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, ...

Eating disorders among teenagers skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teens like Moorea Friedmann were isolated, spending more time in front of their computers watching movies and TV, where ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.