Older adults with ADHD are at higher risk of age-related dementias like Alzheimer's disease, and an international team of ...

A new study has demonstrated that the brains of people who experience migraines and other types of headaches cannot modulate ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain ... They also serve as relay stations to the cerebral regions (green, and brown and orange, seen in the images below).

Your brain then decides whether or not to carry out what it has read. If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to ...

Layer formation in the developing cerebral cortex requires the movement of neurons from their site of origin to their final laminar position. We demonstrate, using time-lapse imaging of acute ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular ...

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Using advanced ...

Researchers have developed a new kind of artificial neuron—called infomorphic neurons—that can independently learn and self-organize with nearby neurons, mimicking the decentralized learning of ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the ...