“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.

Analogous to how all of the words in a language can be created by recombining the letters of its alphabet, a new study finds that the full repertoire of human hand actions can be built out of a small ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

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

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

So President Obama has proposed a Brain Activity Map (BAM) project to reveal some of these remaining secrets, using the Human Genome Project as a model. Not all scientists, however, are on board.

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.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

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

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

Tufts researchers report that eight key nutrients may influence dementia, cardiovascular disease, and other health conditions. Eight vital nutrients form the group of B vitamins known as the B complex ...