A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience00304-5/fulltext) has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural ...

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

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

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

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

Much of the previous research on human brain uniqueness has focused on the prefrontal cortex, a group of areas at the front of our brain linked to complex thought and decision making. We indeed ...

The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting the nature of the threat and orchestrating a behavioral response. Other brain areas also respond to the threat, and the ...

The DMN includes four main brain regions: the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), the posterior ... out a study aimed at better understanding the anatomy of the DMN, specifically examining the ...

the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually entails not just stopping use of a substance but also discovering or ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...