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

In new research published in Nature, scientists have produced the first comprehensive atlas of the tiny energy producers in ...

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Researchers have identified that the right frontal lobe plays a critical role in logical thinking and problem-solving.

A new study finds that in some lemur species, evolving gender equality is linked to changes in the brain’s oxytocin system.

In summary, this study shows that long-term patterns of obesity—especially sustained or increasing weight over time—can ...

Tallon, a research associate professor at The Rockefeller University, who over the past decade has revealed how one small, ...

The team also revealed significant differences in the structure and cell types of ... the cerebral cortex as well as subcortical regions of the brain, like the hippocampus. Research into the ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, suggests a new preclinical study. The findings offer a new ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...