Neurons are cells in the nervous system that send and receive messages throughout your body, allowing your brain to control everything you do. They're even involved in how your brain processes eating.

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

The most comprehensive model of the brain’s metabolism, incorporating more than 16,800 biochemical interactions, has identified key targets to reverse the age-related decline in brain function.

Scientists have created a full map of an adult brain for the first time. The 3D model of all of the neurons of a fruit fly, and the 50 million connections between them, is the first time that ...