Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) at UCL have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to ...

A study by cognitive neuroscientists at SISSA investigated how the human brain processes space and time, uncovering that ...

Fear is very useful for survival – but so is being able to control it. It’s wise to be scared of the unfamiliar, especially ...

How does the human brain process and integrate information about duration ... The study highlights the existence of a ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from ... within which are many other subdivisions. The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are ...

In anterior regions, such as the frontal cortex, space and time are processed independently, with distinct neural populations ...

The entorhinal cortex (EC) plays a pivotal role in memory function and spatial navigation, connecting the hippocampus with the neocortex. The EC integrates a wide range of cortical and subcortical ...

The brain plays a leading role in addiction, just as it plays a role in all human behavior ... a cluster of nerve cells below the cerebral cortex, which responds quickly by releasing a flood ...

The two most significantly schizophrenia-associated cell types had similar functions—selectively inhibiting and therefore shaping excitatory activity in the cerebral cortex, the human brain's ...

With microplastics now permeating our food and our bodies, researchers are keen to assess the potential damage these tiny ...

Using a single-cell sequencing technique, it was possible to characterize the different cell types present in the brain ...