Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading ...

How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew ...

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a role in the regulation of brain states associated with wakefulness and ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

How does the brain perceive time? A new fMRI study identifies a three-stage neural relay from the visual cortex to the frontal regions that constructs our subjective experience of duration and timing.

Findings published in the journal Cell Reports revealed that among people who displayed hypocrisy, the ventromedial ...