Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area ... Brain Stem The brain stem, situated at the bottom of the brain, is made up of three main parts: the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.

Beginning in the 1940s, Canadian brain surgeon Wilder Penfield mapped the brain's motor cortex—the area that controls the movement of your body's muscles. He did this by applying mild electric ...

The human brain is up to three times larger in volume than the ... it hasn’t done so uniformly: some brain areas have ballooned more than others. One particularly enlarged region is the cortex ...

The brain ages at three specific times in life, a study has suggested. Data has shown that proteins in the blood that have been linked to accelerated brain ageing peak at 57, 70 and 78.