One of the newest applications of magnetic resonance imaging tracks the flow of water within cells, revealing neural tracts that make long-distance connections within the brain. In this image of a ...

Your brain has somewhere between 80 billion and 100 billion neurons. Neurons tend to group together to form neural tracts, ...

Observed brain changes illuminate a link between emotional attachment and decision-making deficits in people with hoarding disorder.

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

By contrast, the ventral stream connects the temporal lobe with the anterior inferior frontal gyrus and the inferior/ventral prefrontal cortex via the UF and EmC tracts, and is involved in the ...

Structural abnormalities in white matter tracts further suggest that disrupted neural connectivity contributes to the cognitive and emotional challenges faced by individuals with HD. Advances in ...