“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.

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development.

The findings remind us that our minds are not the products of brains in a vat, but the result of bodies in motion. As ...

Overall, this study indicates that acquiring data across the major perspectives in human neuroscience from the same set of brains is foundational for understanding how human brain function is ...

Study Brain functions are an intriguing area to explore for experts. For decades, researchers have been exploring the human ...

Researchers have catalogued thousands of sites in the brain where RNA is modified throughout the human lifespan in a process known as adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing, offering important new ...

Called the human connectome, this structural system of neural pathways develops as people age. A new study shows transmission speed among brain regions increases into early adulthood. Learning ...

August 23, 2025 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the following: ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...