Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This ...

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

Brain-wide association studies, which use magnetic resonance imaging to identify relationships between brain structure or function and human behavior or health, have faced criticism for producing ...

Do you want to improve the structure and function of your brain? Research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign continues to ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

"These findings indicate an evolutionary adaptation of microglial function to support the increased demand for interneurons in the human cortex ... activity in the brain, Piao said, showing only ...

The connection between physical movement and brain function has emerged as one of neuroscience’s most significant discoveries. The human brain, despite representing only 2% of body weight, consumes ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...