Direct brain recordings reveal that the thalamus, especially its intralaminar and medial nuclei, actively shapes conscious ...

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

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement that ...

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

Chinese and French scientists have created a comprehensive blueprint of the crab-eating macaque's claustrum, advancing ...

While many past studies have tried to better understand the neural underpinnings of handwriting and other complex human motor ... via which the brain, specifically the motor cortex encodes complex ...

The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer ... While there are notable differences between mouse and human brains, many organizational principles remain conserved across species.

In a new study published in Developmental Cell on April 8, a research team led by Prof. WU Qingfeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and trigger suffering ...