In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis ... which were especially prevalent on the outer edges of the cerebral cortex—a distribution pattern “reminiscent of mild TBI or ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

primates also have large visual regions of the brain (Allman, 1999; Kaas, 2005, 2008). Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...