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

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

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

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have created a set of tiny ...

In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...

New research reveals that the brain stores memories of cold experiences, which can later trigger metabolic responses in ...

To make the map, scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston began by using specialized microscopes to record the brain activity in a 1-cubic-millimeter portion of tissue in a lab mouse ...

A new study reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten fear responses.

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

What happens if, one day, you find out there’s something in your or your loved one’s brain? Fret not for there is in modern ...

In the intervening years, he tried numerous forms of therapy, medication, brain stimulation, and residential treatments — all ...