Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This ...

A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in our food consumption ...

Magnetic resonance imaging often yields inconsistent results when assessing the brain’s structural characteristics in ...

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

They assessed both global and regional differences in brain structure, looking at measures like volume, thickness, depth of brain folds, and surface area, primarily in the brain cortex.

For over 100 years, scientists have agreed that discrete collections of brain cells fire off signals to other brain areas through a series of interconnected fibers. In a new study, researchers applied ...

Scientists have revealed the molecular structure of a type of receptor that's crucial to brain development and function. 'This study shows the dominant assemblies and states of the GABA receptor. That ...

Prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos is associated with altered brain structure, function, and metabolism, with a duration into late childhood and adolescence.

Researchers tested a new MRI correction method, called the traveling-subject (TS) approach, to resolve inconsistencies in ...