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

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

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

Patrick McCarty, a senior at Summit Christian Academy near Kansas City who has cerebral palsy, inspired both teams at a recent basketball game when he played with his varsity team for the very ...

researchers from Binghamton University propose the first dynamic model predicting the complicated mechanics of connectivity development and folding in the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex —the outermost layer of the brain — and examined how neurons, or nerve cells, refine their ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain—and examined how neurons, or nerve cells ...

Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of ...