Neurosciences

An investigation carried out by UCLA and published in Psychological Science has concluded that the fact of seeing how photographs published in a social network are appreciated by other people via the...

In general, it can be said that the human brain communicates with almost all the nerves of the brain through the spinal cord.Thus, for example, the information that reaches us about what we touch...

It is common to refer to neurons as the basic units that, together, form the nervous system and the brain that is included in it, but the truth is that there is not only one class of these...

Imagine that you, dear reader, finds out that a friend, sister, aunt, or acquaintance, just got pregnant.She does not know what to do, she is only 16 years old; her boyfriend has abandoned her, is...

The tryptophan (L-tryptophan) is an essential amino acid found in different foods, for example, turkey. Its molecular formula is C11H12N2O2, and within the human organism it fulfills many...

The most characteristic part of the brain is its surface full of folds and crevices, but beneath this layer of cells are many other brain structures without which we could neither think nor adapt to...

The cerebellum it is much more than a kind of younger brother of the neocortex, cornered half hidden between the occipital lobe and the brainstem. In fact, this curious structure resembling a ball of...

The encephalon is almost always associated with a kind of oval with a rough surface full of folds, but below this cerebral cortex there are a multitude of very important structures.In fact, if we had...

The thalamus It is one of the most important parts of the brain. Not only is it one of the largest encephalic structures, but it is also located in the very center of the brain, as its name reflects,...

The human brain has been described as the most complex system in the known universe, and not without reason.It is composed of a network of glia, neurons and nerve pathways and is the most important...