For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

The sound of a fire alarm tells us to get out quickly to not get hurt, while the sight of a gas station sign can signal a ...

Prefrontal cortex biopsies taken for research purposes during deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures appeared to be safe, new research has suggested. Investigators found no significant differences in ...

An image from the research shows axons from neurons in the ACA (red) and ORB (green) innervating the visual cortex, targeting discrete layers. Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...