including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill critical functions. Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs of cranial nerves, which link the brain directly to muscles and ...

In 1986, before this fact was established, Leiner and her colleagues published a paper proposing that the most recently evolved parts of the cerebellum contributed to higher-level mental functions, ...

including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill critical functions. Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs of cranial nerves, which link the brain directly to muscles and ...

So how much of your brain do you really need to survive? Neuroscientists are still investigating this question, and there ...

DOI 10.1038/ncomms2086 The seven brain parts measured were the cerebellum, hippocampus, olfactory bulb, neocortex, striatum, lateral geniculate nucleus and the basolateral complex. The study is a ...

Until recently, studying the brain's internal organization was painstaking work. The advent of medical imaging techniques, ...

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 Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance ... of Goldberg's book have suggested that the frontal lobes or parts of them operate as a whole. We have doubts about this approach.

Striedter also discusses the evolution of changes in brain organization, raising the question of how new structures are formed. One possibility is that new structures are differentiated parts of ...