“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

Biomedical engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in organoid research, pushing us closer to a new era of neurophysiological analysis and treatments. A team at Johns Hopkins University has ...

There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s skull. It sounds extreme, but the study’s first author, Sadaf Soloukey, Ph.D ...

This moving dot depicts something few people have ever seen: fresh cerebrospinal fluid flowing from the spinal cord into the ...

Recent groundbreaking research has provided unprecedented insights into the earliest stages of human brain ...

A new study sheds light on how our brains rhythmically organize memories at the level of individual nerve cells. Researchers ...

Peering into the human brain has never been easy. For decades, neuroscientists have relied on heavy, expensive machines to measure blood flow and oxygen levels that reveal how the brain works.

Measuring human brain activity down to the cellular level: until now, this has been possible only to a limited extent. With a new approach it will now be much easier. The method relies on ...

Typically, researchers pool a bunch of brain scans to figure out the average way brains handle certain tasks. Instead, could they pick out individual brain profiles from a stack of 126 people’s ...