To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

Mental illness is often described in abstract terms, but is rooted in the brain. A study reveals that genes influencing ...

This valuable short paper is an ingenious use of clinical patient data to address an issue in imaging neuroscience. The authors clarify the role of face-selectivity in human fusiform gyrus by ...

The prefrontal cortex (PFC), located at the anterior region of the cerebral cortex, is a multimodal association cortex essential for higher-order brain functions, including decision-making, ...

This valuable study combines experiments and theory to investigate the putative role of spontaneous correlated activity in establishing aligned topographic maps of neural activity in higher-order ...

Summary: Brain changes associated with ASD encompass more areas than previously believed, a new study reports. Researchers identified brain-wide changes in all 11 cortical regions analyzed. The ...

Summary: In the cerebral cortex, when somatostatin neurons become active, other nearby somatostatin neurons became active as well. The distance over which somatostatin neurons shared activity expanded ...

We employed manifold learning techniques to understand how whole-brain cortical activity patterns reorganize when motor behavior must adapt to changing regularities in the environment. We found that ...

Abstract: Associative learning underlies the formation of new episodic memories. Associative memory improves across development, and this age-related improvement is supported by the development of the ...