Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI ... according to the study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex. The ...

A new study published in Science has identified the thalamus as a central player in how humans become consciously aware of visual information. By recording electrical activity directly from the brains ...

Tumefactive lesions – defined as areas of cerebral focal demyelination larger than 2 cm – may occur any time during the disease course of MS.

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

The authors proposed two hypotheses: first, that methamphetamine induces neuroinflammation, and second, that it alters neuronal stem cell differentiation. These are valuable hypotheses, and the ...

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Madison, Wis., metro area has been ranked as the nation's leader in functional employment, according to a new analysis from the Ludwig Institute for ...

Glial cells support neurological structures, function, cognition, behaviours, physical skills, and motor coordination.