Cerebral Cortex Damage. Damage to any region of the cerebral cortex is typically caused by tumors, autoimmune diseases, bleeding in your brain, or a stroke.Symptoms of possible damage depend on ...

The cerebral cortex of your brain is the outermost layer. ... Because of its location at the back of the head, the occipital lobe is less susceptible to injury than some other parts of the brain.

Tiny, shallow grooves on the surface of the brain may provide new insight into how aging and Alzheimer’s disease affect brain ...

We all have a wondrous ability to form emotional attachments to many different things, from nature and pets to romantic ...

Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published ...

Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is ...

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Timing is everything Sensory processing of sounds begins in the cochlea, a part of the inner ear where sound frequencies are converted into electricity and forwarded to the auditory cortex of the ...