Interestingly, when your mind is at rest, your brain does not 'shut down', but rather engages in the default mode network ...

A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a ...

Damage to the prefrontal cortex, a region responsible for cognitive control and reasoning, led to an increase in the intensity of political feelings. Conversely, damage to the amygdala, a brain ...

But it can also precipitate big changes in brain health, including an increased risk of cognitive decline and depression. Before retiring, you’re getting up in the morning, socializing with co ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

The new study, published in Brain Communications, found that shrinkage in the front and side of the brain (prefrontal ... including the cerebral cortex (the outer layer of the brain responsible ...

Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kingston Hospital NHS FT, London, UK Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, St George’s University Hospitals NHS FT, London, UK Department of Basic and ...

To do this, the central nervous system relies on billions of neurons (nerve cells). The cerebrum (front of brain) comprises gray matter (the cerebral cortex) and white matter at its center. The ...

Connections from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) to medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) regulate memory and emotion and ... To examine these circuits, we first used retrograde and anterograde anatomy to ...

Wiehler and his colleagues instead hypothesized that something was accumulating in the brain, so they looked for evidence of this in a region that helps orchestrate cognitive control: the left lateral ...