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

A new international study supports Neural Resonance Theory (NRT), which suggests that music perception and enjoyment arise ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

A recent study revealed that the average human brain may contain the equivalent ... it mirrors this growth in our bodies. "This stuff is increasing in our world exponentially," toxicologist ...

For decades, neuroscientists have developed mathematical frameworks to explain how brain activity drives behavior in ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

Scientists using living human brain tissue have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer's ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Basic Science, Yonsei University, and the Max Planck Institute have developed a ...