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 ...

Neurons have dominated neuroscience research for decades, but a growing body of evidence suggests that a group of ...

New research suggests that consciousness originates in the subcortex, and is polished by the cortex and cerebellum.

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Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Researchers at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, together with international partners, have ...