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

Researchers have mapped age-related changes in the brain’s locus coeruleus (LC), a region linked to cognition and Alzheimer’s ...

Patients in the early stages of psychosis respond to treatments differently than those who have developed a chronic version ...

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

“On day 1, the brain doesn’t represent the space very well,” says research scientist Wei Guo, the study’s lead author.

“You get a sense of how complicated you are. We’re looking at one tiny part ... of a mouse’s brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons and the hundreds of ...