Most studies of brain functional networks have been based on fMRI scans of people at rest, but many parts of the brain or cortex are not fully active in the absence of external stimulation.
The anatomy of the brain involves key regions including the brain stem, cerebellum, lobes of the cerebral cortex, and specific glands (the pituitary, for example) needed to maintain life and health.
Putting together the neurons comprising these regions and describing the rules of their interactions through computer code, they are able to simulate the brain activity in these regions and study the ...
With cardiac arrest, all parts of the brain that rely on blood flow are affected by its failure ... By nine minutes of delay, severe and permanent brain damage is likely. After 10 minutes, the chances ...
The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where ... Each component of the memory is part of a single engram, activating the entire ...
One groundbreaking 2011 study analyzed brain structure differences in a sample ... “We inherit some part of how we process information, how we see the world and how we perceive threats—and ...
"The parts of the brain that allow us to do this are in regions of the human brain that have expanded recently in our evolution," Braga explained. The study found that our brain's social parts are ...