If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

Not all puzzles require complex calculations—some simply test your ability to notice what others overlook. Spot-the-mistake ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

The last area of the brain to reach maturity is the prefrontal cortex, where the so-called executive ... in England in 2000 (published as The Mind Tree in the U.S. in 2003) he chronicles his ...

Dysfunctional Family. A family tree of tau folds now incorporates two new structures—P301L, P301T (bottom)—and fills in ...

Now, however, researchers have identified a previously undiscovered brain network that might be behind this mind-body connection, according to new research published today (April 19) in Nature. The ...

The prefrontal cortex, located in the front part of the brain, is often referred to as ... this approach hones in on a small group of trees. How the Model Works This idea came from observing ...

Those living on blocks with more trees showed a boost in heart and ... showed decreased activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain tied to depressive rumination—and ...

Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted primarily to processing visual information (Van Essen et al., 1992; Van Essen ...

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Using advanced ...

the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually entails not just stopping use of a substance but also discovering or ...