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

New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of ...

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Nature showcases diverse nervous systems beyond a single command center. Several animals, including octopuses, leeches, and ...

Imagine slamming your head into a tree trunk at full speed, again and again, for hours every day. The thought alone makes ...

Treatment may include medication or surgery to temporarily remove part of the skull to accommodate swelling. The posterior communicating artery (PCOM) is a small artery in the brain that connects the ...

After the scans, doctors found an incomplete body leg and pelvic bones attached to her skull and spine - stuck to the brainstem, a delicate part that connects the brain to the spinal cord. A parasitic ...

Importantly, matching up all that anatomy with the activity in the mouse’s brain as it watched movies allowed researchers to trace how the circuitry worked. The Princeton researchers also ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

The Nubbin, an alleged brain chip allowing users to relive memories, is actually a marketing ploy for Black Mirror's upcoming season. The internet is buzzing over a mysterious new piece of tech ca ...

Scientists have recreated in a laboratory the sensory pathway that transmits feelings of pain to the human brain, in a breakthrough that could lead to better treatments. A team at Stanford ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to ...