Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The human brain is often described as one of biology's greatest mysteries. Researchers at Stanford have found evidence that the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people at high risk of depression because of a family history, spirituality may offer some protection for the brain, a new study hints. Parts of the brain's outer layer ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Even in old age, parts of the human brain ...