In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

Over the course of human evolution, our brains expanded massively. One of the areas that ballooned over the past few million years is the cerebral cortex, the wrinkly outer layer of the brain. It ...

Cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of the cerebrum in the brain. It is important for helping process language, memory, and thought. Memory Memory allows the brain to store and ...

Cerebral hemispheres The cerebrum's outer layer, it is split into two hemispheres and is highly folded. These two hemispheres make up the cerebral cortex. This controls most of our senses ...

but new data published in Cerebral Cortex show that NBCs are the most common type of basket cell in layers II/III of the somatosensory cortex, and that they are a powerful inhibitory force in ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...