Columbia scientists mapped brain mitochondria for the first time, revealing how energy shapes memory, mood, and mental health ...

The results show that mitochondria, which generate the energy that powers cells, differ in type and density in different parts of ... And the brain accounts for 20% of the human body’s energy ...

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.

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

Most studies comparing the human brain to that of other species focus on size. This can be the size of the brain, size of the ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...