Neuroimaging evidence enhances understanding of the subcortex’s role in the neural mechanisms of working memory updating, providing new insights into midbrain function.

Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing ...

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation ...

The novel cue-induced analgesia paradigm allowed a compelling identification of a brainstem circuit element, i.e., somatostatin-expressing neurons within the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey that ...

Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and ...

New research analyzed brain imaging information with clinical evaluation to derive six brain-based psychopathology dimensions ...

First, the ventral component that comprises the amygdala, ventral striatum (VS), which includes the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and olfactory tubercle, and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the ventral part ...

The prefrontal cortex functions in cognitive control (e.g. planning, attention, problem-solving, error-monitoring, decision-making, social cognition, and working memory). Latest Research and Reviews ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience offers insight into how small grooves in the brain’s surface — known as tertiary sulci — might help explain individual differences in reasoning ...

Figure 1. Tracer injection sites.Image of coronal sections from all cases investigated, showing BDA and Pha-L injection site centers in S1 whisker and forelimb representations.For each experiment, the ...

The effect of high-frequency (HF) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) can relieve chronic pain and accompanying depressive symptoms.