The illustration represents how sounds are encoded in the cerebral cortex, with neurons (at right) using "echoing" activity to track auditory stimuli to change and improve the brain's predictions of ...

The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled millions of cells to chart a cellular ...

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

The researchers decided to focus their efforts on the mouse postsubiculum because this brain region is known ... as the grid ...

his entorhinal cortex—a brain region important for memory formation and retrieval—was relatively spared, which may have accounted for the persistence of his cognitive abilities. Next, the researchers ...

They used a fluorescence imaging technique called miniature two-photon microscopy to observe what was happening in mouse brains ... in an area of the brain called the cortex.

During a Fun with DNA course in the summer offered in conjunction with Women in Science, Nowlan was the “perfect role model,” McBrien added, who proved to be “utterly approachable” and enthusiastic, ...

While tau has an important neurophysiological function, when it undergoes pathological changes and accumulates in the brain ... in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, but they do not develop ...