Smaller, shallow brain folds in the posteromedial cortex show greater thinning with age and Alzheimer’s disease, and their ...

To make her results-yielding "brain soup," as she calls it, the research team used only a part of the brain called the cerebral cortex, the crinkly outer layer that sits on top of the brain's ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the treatment of some neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression, some ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...