The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Your brainstem is the central apparatus of your entire nervous system. One portion of your brainstem is called the pons. The pons links your brain to your spinal cord. Your pons handles all of your ...

A new study has written the most detailed 'parts list' of the human brain to date. This categorization of our brain cell types lays the groundwork to improve our understanding of our own brains and to ...

"I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it." —Andy Warhol Cannabis contains various molecules which bind to receptors in the brain, aptly called "cannabinoid receptors.

Mice are commonly used as models for drug research, including in neuroscience. But oftentimes the knowledge gleaned from mouse studies doesn’t translate to treatments for people. Now a research team ...

Marijuana — or indeed, any substance you introduce into your body — can have different effects on different parts of your brain, and their corresponding functions. Every component of the human body is ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region. Previous research has ...

If you stumbled across a radio or a computer and had no idea how it worked, you would likely first want to find out what it was made from—what its component parts were. Your next step might be to ...

The day that computers outsmart their human overlords may yet lie in the distant future, but a new computer chip that mimics the basis of learning and memory in the brain is a critical step towards ...