A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

Scientists characterized the largest sample of a neural circuit to date to improve artificial intelligence models and better ...

A brain imaging technique developed by Columbia researchers has identified areas in the brain's cerebral cortex—just behind ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Scientists grew organoids, or tiny models of the brain, to learn more ... adaptation of microglial function to support the increased demand for interneurons in the human cortex," the researchers wrote ...

Prefrontal cortex biopsies taken for research purposes during deep brain stimulation procedures appear to be safe, new ...