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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

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 ...