Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew ...

In their flagship paper, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) describes the classification and analysis of cell types in the mammalian primary motor cortex.

Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...

Here, the authors show that Intracortical recordings in human motor cortex during attempted multi-finger movements reveal a largely linear code with two violations: magnitude normalization and ...

A collaborative effort between scientists, doctors and an enterprise led to China successfully conducting its first-in-human clinical trial of an invasive brain-machine interface, becoming the ...

From diagnosing brain disorders to cognitive enhancement, 100 years of EEG have transformed neuroscience© Provided by The ...

Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) can make it hard to fasten buttons and perform other daily tasks. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) It's a chronic condition that's not curable.

The My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team, shares the stories about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.

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