Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs of cranial nerves ... The brain and spinal cord together form the body’s command structure: the central nervous system.

In the first weeks after birth, brain volume is typically about a third of what it will be in adulthood. By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain ...

1 “This work identifies cell types and categorizes them as a way to lay the foundation to understand the structure and function of the ... between the lower ventral and upper dorsal parts of the brain ...

New research published in Biology of Sex Differences has found that sex differences in brain structure are already present at birth and remain relatively stable during early postnatal development. The ...

In a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers revealed the structural underpinnings of memory formation across a broad network of neurons in the mouse brain.

Reporting in a paper in American Journal of Psychiatry “Estimating Multimodal Structural Brain Variability in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Worldwide ENIGMA Study, first author Wolfgang ...