The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer, the main site of conscious perceptions, judgments and the planning and execution of movements. "Scientists have been studying the structure and ...

In the past, labeling individual neurons allowed researchers to study the neurons that project from the brain’s cortex to the striatum. The results suggested that the pathways are exclusively ...

This rendering shows an inhibitory neuron from layer 5 of the visual cortex. It's reconstructed from a large-scale electron microscopy dataset. The cell's output synapses (bright spots) are color ...

Scientists have created the most detailed functional brain map to date by tracing connections between 84,000 neurons in a mouse's visual cortex. The research, which involved showing the mouse ...

Specifically, the ORB subregions receive considerable inputs from both the cerebral cortex (CTX) and TH, with each subregion displaying a distinct pattern of preferential inputs from specific brain ...

In March, Roman went for a CT scan, which revealed he had a 1.2cm lesion on the right side of his brain in the cerebellum – the part of the brain responsible for attention and language.

Summary: Lucid dreaming, where people become aware they are dreaming, has long fascinated both scientists and dreamers. A new study with the largest dataset of its kind has identified distinct brain ...