A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Direct brain recordings reveal that the thalamus, especially its intralaminar and medial nuclei, actively shapes conscious ...

Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and ...

From the smallest fragment of brain tissue, the intricate blueprint of the entire brain is beginning to emerge. Researchers ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, ...

Serotonin neurons in the brainstem are not independent, as once thought, but interact to influence decision-making.

Researchers suggest two newly developed tests could help to identify cognitive impairments that would otherwise go undetected ...

CIC biomaGUNE, and IIS Biobizkaia reveals unexpected behavior in myelin. Prolonged physical exercise forces the human body to ...

Marathon runners experience reversible changes in their brain myelin. These findings indicate that myelin (a substance that surrounds the neurons) exhibits behavior that was previously unknown, and ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.