A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information.

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

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

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

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...

Image credit: K. Howard/Stocksy. A new study investigated how sucralose, a non-caloric sweetener, affects brain signals related to hunger. The researchers compared the effects of sucralose to ...

Five nurses working on the same floor of a maternity unit at a Massachusetts hospital have all developed brain tumors ... the context of their individual medical history and risk factors.

Medullary MRI in sagittal T1-weighted sections in hypointense ... Figure 2. A, B; axial sections in hypersignal in T2. Sections C, D: intraoperative view of the arachnoid cyst after performing a ...

Cuts and delays in federal research funding have led a scientist at UMass Chan Medical School to shut down ... aimed at developing tools to help treat brain cancer in children.

Led by a team from Washington University in St. Louis, the research focuses on vessels around the brain called meningeal lymphatics, the brain cleaners in chief. These vessels are part of the larger ...