Anyone who's healed from a cut or a scrape has witnessed the incredible regenerative power of stem cells. These cells can create identical copies of ...

New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth.

Voice experiments in people with epilepsy have helped trace the circuit of electrical signals in the brain that allow its hearing center to sort out background sounds from their own voices.

Human number cognition may be rooted in the putamen, a deep brain structure traditionally associated with movement rather ...

A new study from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) indicates that the ability to process numbers may be rooted in a ...

The putamen is usually related to functions such as movement and cognition, but rarely to higher-level aspects of human ...

The findings suggest possibilities for brain regions that could be tapped into for improving learning among people who ...

A study by Oregon Health and Science University researchers suggests that the ability to process numbers may have originated ...

A breakup or the loss of a loved one can feel like you're in withdrawal. Their absence can feel like yearning, physical pain — like an addiction no longer fed. And it's that feeling of addiction that ...

The nervous systems of older people function more slowly and less efficiently in many ways; they react more slowly, make ...

"Brain areas involved in processing numbers can be delineated and extra care taken to avoid damaging these areas during ...