The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum ... These also fulfill critical functions. Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs of cranial nerves, which link the brain ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

In a landmark study published in Nature, researchers from the Allen Institute at the Baylor College of Medicine and Princeton ...

Chinese and French scientists have created a comprehensive blueprint of the crab-eating macaque's claustrum, advancing ...

“Wherever you look in the brain, from the spinal cord all the way up to the cerebral cortex, there are broadly speaking ... the School of Physiology and Pharmacology concerns the functional ...

Although the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex was described more than half a century ago, the function of these columns is still a matter of speculation. "A possible explanation for ...