The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

Neurons found in one of the oldest regions of the brain may control when we stop eating a meal, new research in mice hints.

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal’s brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the blood-brain barrier.