Four years ago, the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) was launched, with the aim of identifying and cataloguing the ...

O ver the past half-century of manned spaceflight, scientists have learned a lot about how the human body responds once freed ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a 'meta-learning' function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Scientists have confirmed that spaceflight forces the brain to shift and stretch, a discovery that could change how we ...

This exploratory study in healthy young adults found that plasma sodium levels within the normal clinical range are ...