Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

For over 100 years, scientists have agreed that discrete collections of brain cells fire off signals to other brain areas through a series of interconnected fibers. In a new study, researchers applied ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

The neurological impact of adolescent football players subjected to head traumas is unclear. While American football might promote teamwork, repeated subconcussive blows can cause neurological ...

Rolls and colleagues (2017) describe their work on "effective connectivity" in analyzing brain activity in depressed patients. Effective connectivity goes beyond standard functional connectivity ...

Local high school students will test their knowledge of brain anatomy and function in the eighth annual WNY Brain Bee from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 21 in Canisius College’s Science Hall, Main Street and ...