Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Diastolic dysfunction is when the left ventricle does not relax properly between heartbeats and fill with blood. The studies also used MRI brain scans to measure brain volumes. The meta-analysis ...

If large enough, a colloid cyst obstructs the movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain. This results in a build up of CSF in the ventricles of the brain and raises pressure in the skull.

This dual structural and functional approach allows direct correlation between brain anatomy and its functioning. The generated data, equivalent to 22 years of HD video, is now freely accessible. This ...

At three months of follow-up, patients hospitalized for a serious heart attack who were treated with the oral blood thinner rivaroxaban for a blood clot in the left ventricle did as well as similar ...

Can be used in therapy practices or college anatomy class to teach clients or study what's happening in parts of the brain during stress, anxiety, panic, emotions, memories, etc ...

A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience00304-5/fulltext) has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural ...

Recently, a nurse narrated to me how a couple in her neighbourhood expressed concern over how lazy their 8-year-old son was.