Scientists at UC San Diego, have uncovered processes that explain how our brains record information, which could help boost new discoveries.

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

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine's most difficult challenges, limiting ...

See α-Synuclein. Candidate tracer SY08 detects α-synuclein deposits in the brainstem (right) and parietal cortex (left) of ...

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

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that ...

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

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

There are two main types of neurons in the cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain: excitatory, which make up 80% of neurons, or inhibitory, the remaining 20%. Of inhibitory neurons in the ...