The claustrum complex, a small yet powerful region in the brain, has intrigued scientists for years. Found across mammalian ...

Parents of young children probably recognize the hectic mornings filled with reminding the kids to eat breakfast, brush their ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new algorithm, the Krakencoder, that merges multiple types of brain imaging data to better understand how the brain s wiring underpins behavior, ...

A new study led by University of California, Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory researchers found ...

Hearing a special song can instantly transport someone to a favorite memory from their past, and there is no question that music is an important element of life.

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

Imagine that you have been hired by a car company and given the task of creating a new revolutionary electric car. The task comes with a peculiar twist: you must start with a T-Ford from 1908.

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is ...

Communication between the body and the nervous system is called interoception and it allows the brain to sense internal states, such as hunger, pain, or heart rate. The vagus nerve is an important ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

A new study published today in JAMA Network Open explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its kind ever to be ...