The small grooves on the surface of our brain may play a key role in our reasoning. A recent study reveals that their depth ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known as fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy), measures how light is ...

In new research published in Nature, scientists have produced the first comprehensive atlas of the tiny energy producers in the human brain. By slicing a donated brain into more than seven hundred ...

The mind-brain problem (MBP) – the problem of how to address the relation between mental phenomena and neural or physical phenomena in general – is one of the most fundamental philosophical and ...

In 1861, Paul Broca, a French surgeon and anthropologist, showed that damage to a particular region of the brain — only about four square centimeters in size — can make a person unable to ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.

Scientists uncover evidence that early humans inherited 20% of their genes from a mysterious ancestor. Credit: Public Domain Scientists have discovered that an unknown group of human ancestors ...

And above that is a phrenology chart of all the areas of the brain. On the bottom part of Black Girl’s Window, it shows my silhouette and my hands are pressed against the panes of the glass. On the ...

The dimensions (length, width and height) of the brain, the cerebellum and olfactory bulb of each sample were examined with a one-way ANOVA (P Results: From neonates to the old adults, the length, ...

The role of phrenology in the Nazi racist segregation of Jewish people during the Holocaust is relatively well discussed 1. Its pivotal role in the genesis of the Rwandan genocide at the gates of the ...