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

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a role in the regulation of brain states associated with wakefulness and ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

Researchers reviewed evidence on coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and cognition, finding strong biological support and positive results ...

Before the advent of the amyloid hypothesis in the 1990s, the cholinergic hypothesis offered key clues to the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease. Concentrated in the basal forebrain and projecting ...

The researchers were drawn to the RT partly because of its role in epilepsy ... “Most previous studies have focused on circuits within the the cerebral cortex, where higher order functions are carried ...