A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception. The brain is constantly ...

If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy ... They also serve as relay stations to the cerebral regions (green, and brown and orange, seen in the images ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to ...

These two hemispheres make up the cerebral cortex. This controls most of our senses, intelligence, personality, conscious thought and high-level functions, such as language and verbal memory.

In the past, labeling individual neurons allowed researchers to study the neurons that project from the brain’s cortex to the striatum ... two opposing forces in the mammalian cerebral cortex, ...

The GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid)-ergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex are a diverse population of cells. Their diversity is manifested in every aspect of their phenotype, as evidenced by their ...

A small world after all The cerebral cortex is the central hub for coordinating behaviour and cognition in the brain. As the head ... illuminate fluorescently-labeled ‘reporter’ proteins ...