“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

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

A new study has created the first normative charts of brain functional development from birth to six years old, highlighting ...

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

PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

In new research published in Nature, scientists have produced the first comprehensive atlas of the tiny energy producers in ...

A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits. New research shows that during extreme ...

About 20% to 35% of the population suffers from chronic sleep disorders—and up to half of all people in older age. Moreover, ...

A study has created brain functional growth charts from MRI scans of 1,091 children, showing how different brain networks ...

Repeated exposure to shock waves in the line of military duty can leave lasting impressions on the brain and may affect its ...

This study successfully constructed the world's first micrometer-level 3D multimodal atlas integrating cranium, functional brain regions, cerebral vasculature, and invasive brain-computer ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.