Understandably, viewers were heartbroken when Lexie along with Meredith, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), Cristina Yang ...

A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural differences in the brain.

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex ...

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

Dorsal view reveals varying complexity of sulci in parietal and frontal cortices across Carnivoran families. Surfaces are presented in descending order of sulcal complexity, starting with brains ...

Limbic system: The limbic system is located deep in the brain and is composed of several small structures, including the hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, and hypothalamus. Internal capsule: This area ...

Your frontal lobe is one of four different sections (also called lobes) of your brain. The four lobes in your brain are called the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes.

Some evidence suggests differences in the development of male and female brains. One of these differences is that the prefrontal cortex, a region of the frontal lobe, makes up a relatively higher ...

Frontal lobe. The largest lobe of the brain, located in the front of the head, the frontal lobe is involved in personality characteristics, decision-making and movement. Recognition of smell usually ...

It has been more than 20 years since Francis Crick and Edward Jones lamented science’s lack of even a basic understanding of human neuroanatomy. “Clearly what is needed for a modern human brain ...