Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that regulates the production of two different proteins from the same gene.

Q: What do you know about a study that says aerobics might be good for slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's disease? I ...

A new study has identified brain regions crucial for remembering words and how they are affected in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Originally published on talker.news, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange .

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in humans, though in a different region ...

A new Canadian study has found that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is linked to lower cognitive performance, affecting ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

Understanding how the brain responds to fear could help treat people with phobias, PTSD, and anxiety.

The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of sensory information, including visual and auditory input. Now researchers led by Robert Desimone, director of MIT’s ...

The subtleties involved here reflect the fact that the brain’s dizzying complexity means it’s rarely possible to draw simple conclusions. Even in this case, where a basic interpretation might be that ...