Conventional wisdom among neuroscientists suggests that the brain's motor functions are organized around the body, meaning ...

Brain scans show that certain cortical layers, especially in the touch-processing area, resist aging or even strengthen with time, suggesting that use and stimulation can preserve brain function far ...

Conventional wisdom among neuroscientists suggests that the brain’s motor functions are organized around the body, meaning certain brain areas control the hand; others the foot. An emerging ...

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 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 brain controls the release of glucose in a wide range of stressful circumstances, including fasting and low blood sugar ...

New research shows that the brain organizes hand movements using a kind of “action alphabet” stored in the supramarginal ...

A new study investigated whether patients with a rare condition in which major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions also show changes in brain asymmetries.

Neurosurgeons and engineers at the University of Washington School of Medicine reached a milestone this summer, implanting a device inside the skull of a stroke victim that they believe can help him ...

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 ...