As illustrated by the cover of his book "The Fabric of Mind," my father (Richard Bergland, M.D.) always preferred sagittal cross sections of the brain because this vantage point best illustrates the ...

Bottom Line: Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior Results: By performing a network analysis on whole-brain activity of male mice ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information. This challenges long-held beliefs that only the cortex handles such complex ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

This exploratory study in healthy young adults found that plasma sodium levels within the normal clinical range are ...

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

An international collaboration led by Cornell University researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to ...

The brain is known to develop gradually throughout the human lifespan, following a hierarchical pattern. First, it adapts to support basic functions, such as movement and sensory perception, then it ...