Diverse sensory and cognitive functions rely on complex and dynamic neural interactions between cortical and subcortical brain areas to coordinate incoming inputs and feedback processes, creating ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals ...

Scientists have found that 93% of the lipids in brain tissue are distributed differently in the white and gray matter, the subcortex, the visual and motor cortices, and the prefrontal cortex, which is ...

Recently, the team led by Chief Physician Quan Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital systematically evaluated the genetic associations between type 2 ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Peter Coppola, a neuroscientist from the University of Cambridge, sought to answer this question with an exhaustive analysis of brain studies going ...