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

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

Information gathered in just one cubic millimeter of a rodent’s cerebral cortex will help unravel the complex neural networks ...

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

The cerebral cortex, that region of the brain that allows expression through language, seems to be influenced by the child's surroundings. Spanish would be learned in the Andes or Greek in Athens ...

The hypothalamus is a small but critical region at the base of the brain that controls the autonomic nervous system, ...

By analyzing the brain activity of epileptic patients, researchers have identified the key role of Heschl's gyrus, in the ...

A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a ...

Mouse visual cortex wiring diagram and functional map offers insight into human brain complexity and cognition.

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the human cerebral cortex flexibly ...

In the normal mature brain, numerous neural circuits, mostly closed loop, connect a spectrum of motor and nonmotor regions of the cerebral cortex with the cerebellum. Development and consolidation ...

WASHINGTON: Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to ...