The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Psychobiologist Roger Sperry discovered that human beings are of two minds ... Sperry's work helped chart a map of the brain and opened whole fields of psychological and philosophical questions.

The world's most powerful MRI scanner has generated its inaugural images of human ... chart how specific drugs utilized in treating bipolar disorder, such as lithium, disperse throughout the brain.