Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using ...

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

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

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

In military service members with a history of repetitive blast exposure, researchers found that higher blast exposure correlated with changes in the functional connectivity between brain regions, ...

Both, human brain and modern artificial neural networks are extremely powerful. At the lowest level, the neurons work ...

New research led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed how Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), best known for causing ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, in collaboration with ...

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, ...

researchers from Binghamton University propose the first dynamic model predicting the complicated mechanics of connectivity development and folding in the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the ...