A neuroimaging study of action video game players revealed that these individuals tend to have enhanced functional and ...

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and ...

This is a term which means that there is damage to the brain (but not necessarily the primary visual cortex) affecting how it processes the visual environment. Below is a variety of information on how ...

Research shows vision sensitivity tests may identify dementia 12 years before diagnosis, offering hope for intervention and treatment for the 10% of Americans ...

A new study has demonstrated that the brains of people who experience migraines and other types of headaches cannot modulate ...

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, Ph.D., cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small ...

The study focused on two types of inhibitory neurons in the visual cortex: parvalbumin (PV) neurons and somatostatin (SST) neurons. The researchers used optogenetics—a technique that uses light ...

Neurons in the rat primary auditory cortex (A1) generally cannot respond to tone sequences faster than 12 pulses per second (pps). To test whether experience can modify this maximum following rate ...