The Human Brain

Human brain (stock illustration). Credit: © Alexandr Mitiuc / Fotolia A new scientific study puts the final nail in the coffin of a long-standing theory to explain human s remarkable cognitive…

The cerebellum is located behind the top part of the brain stem (where the spinal cord meets the brain) and is made of two hemispheres (halves). The cerebellum receives information from the sensory…

NEURONS & SYNAPSES The core component of the nervous system in general, and the brain in particular, is the neuron or nerve cell, the brain cells of popular language. A neuron is an electrically…

Creamy or crunchy – and oh, so spreadable – peanut butter is not your first thought as a possible game-changer in Alzheimer’s disease research. The test was conducted on cognitively normal individuals…

The major concern of classification methods in psychiatric imaging context is the separation of groups (e.g., patients and controls) based solely on structural properties of the brain. For this…

MIT neuroscientists have found that the human brain can process entire images that the eye sees for as little as 13 milliseconds — the first evidence of such rapid processing speed. That speed…

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The brains of apes and humans evolved unusually quickly when it came to the cerebellum, a part of the brain involved in control of movement, researchers say. The unique mental abilities of humans…

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1. You cannot tickle yourself. Examining the patient who is afraid of tickling, doctors usually try to have his or her hands over their own to prevent such feelings. This happens because your…

Sleepy slumber has me deep within its velvet grip, powerless to fight, slave to its charms and I have you on my mind. Places, faces, shallow features and empty promises spoken on deceitful lips…

People tend to be risk-averse when it comes to gains, and risk-seeking when it comes to losses. If you give people a choice between a $500 sure gain and a coin-flip chance of a $1, gain, about…

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Our brains are wondrous, incredible machines. They re slower than the earliest personal computers in terms of raw processing power, yet capable of leaps of intuition and able to store a lifetime…

Nature 452 , 352-355 (20 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06713; Received 16 June 2007; Accepted 17 January 2008; Published online 5 March 2008 Kendrick N. Kay, Thomas Naselaris, Ryan J. Prenger…

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Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies…

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Human brain is one of the most complex and magnificent organs in the human body. Our brain gives us self consciousness and consciousness of our environment, processing a constant stream of sensory…

NEURODOME was created by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, digital effects artists, and planetarium production specialists who are harnessing revolutionary brain-imaging techniques to…

The cerebral hemispheres are the highest level of the Central Nervous System. They are like two mushroom caps bulging of the left and right front end of the brain stem, as shown in Figure 1 at…

The size of the brain of a chimpanzee (right) is considerably smaller than that of a human brain. Probably multiple stretches of DNA help determine that, geneticists say. Science Photo Library/Corbis…

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There are a wide range of brain images available on the Web. These images range from colorful hand-drawn diagrams of the brain to complex magnetic resonance images taken using the most powerful…