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

Direct brain recordings reveal that the thalamus, especially its intralaminar and medial nuclei, actively shapes conscious ...

The researchers found that consciousness may not arise in the “smart” part of the brain — the frontal areas where thinking is ...

The study reveals that when the right brain is damaged, people’s capacity for reasoning suffers, implying that this area is central.

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

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving. The findings, published in Brain, help to increase our ...

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one ...

In a recent meta-study, researchers from Jülich have uncovered differences in the brain regions associated with chronic sleep disorders and short-term sleep deprivation. These findings were published ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Newborns exposed to opioids in utero exhibit smaller brain volumes in several regions, including cortical gray matter, white matter, deep gray matter, cerebellum ...

a research team found that damage to distinct parts of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) were linked to being influenced by impulsive decision making by others, while another region was causally ...