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

The DAM-Decision and Memory group at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, led by Raphael Kaplan and composed of researchers from ...

Our brains contain billions of neurons and trillions of connections, and scientists are only beginning to understand the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

Scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and about people, places and things ...

In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don’t.

To explore sex differences in neonatal brain structure, the researchers analyzed data from 514 healthy, full-term newborns who were part of the Developing Human Connectome Project. The sample included ...

The AMPA group of brain receptors have mostly been assumed to be calcium impermeable and so were not thought to contribute to the calcium-dependent mechanisms underlying learning and memory.

Reports like this may trigger a sense of human defensiveness, a fear that the human brain — you, really — is becoming obsolete. It makes me want to practice mental math, read a book ...

The CL1, a commercial wetware brain in a box ... which sends and receives electrical impulses into the neural structure.” And what’s the fate of this unholy melding of flesh and machine?

Edited by Danielle Basset, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; received May 2, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025, by Editorial Board Member Elizabeth A. Buffalo ...

One such study, titled "Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain” looked into this by monitoring the brains of four dying patients.