A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals struggles with validation of REC-994 and competition in oncology. Read why RXRX stock is a hold ...

Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and ShanghaiTech University have developed an innovative method for ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and ShanghaiTech University have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimic ...

For decades, scientists across the globe have investigated methods to accurately measure drug permeability across the blood-brain barrier. In research published in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

Researchers studied the mechanisms that learn to suppress instinctive fear responses. The study has implications beyond the ...