In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

Mouse visual cortex wiring diagram and functional map offers insight into human brain complexity and cognition.

In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don’t.

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

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Julia Campbell: Sound waves enter the outer ear through the canal ... We have been looking in the central nervous system, mainly in the cortex, which again is where auditory information is ...

They make hormones that help the body work properly and are vital to life. The adrenal glands have an inner and outer layer: cortex - outer layer medulla - inner layer Tumours of the adrenal glands ...

High-resolution MRI scans were used to measure the size and shape of different parts of the brain, including the cerebral cortex (the outer layer of the brain responsible for thinking, memory ...