But many kids don’t engage in enough activity ... light-intensity exercise increased cerebral blood flow in the prefrontal cortex, except for monotonous movement stretching,” Naito said.

If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity ...

Over the course of human evolution, our brains expanded massively. One of the areas that ballooned over the past few million years is the cerebral cortex, the wrinkly outer layer of the brain. It ...

Rawpixel.com - stock.adobe.com Think having kids drains your brain? Think again. A new study suggests that those sleepless nights and stressful mornings might actually be keeping your mind young ...

Concussion damage could linger in an athlete's brain for at least a year, long after they've rejoined their sport, a new study says.

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...