An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

Researchers used imaging and computational analysis to follow which neurons and networks within the brain were active at ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical machinery inside modern artificial intelligence. Instead of following only ...

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

This protective layer allows signals to pass between cells incredibly quickly. But what happens when this layer goes missing ...

New research reveals that even a small loss of myelin—the protective coating around neurons—can severely disrupt how the brain sends and interprets sensory information.

The researchers discovered that the missing piece of myelin resulted in slower and less consistent signal transmission to the thalamus. "We had anticipated this, because myelin is known to be ...