A new study published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease has found that an overabundance of inhibitory connections in a ...
Researchers examining postmortem human brains have found that the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for planning, ...
An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...
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 reveals a mental workaround that is activated through repetition and experience.
Research shows that simply having something to look forward to—big or small—can meaningfully boost your sense of well-being.
A circuit that runs from the prefrontal cortex near the front of the brain to a deeper brain structure called the insular cortex appears to mediate the antidepressant effects of a newer form of ...
Historically, neuroscientists and evolutionary anthropologists assumed that modern humans' disproportionately large frontal lobes and the explosive growth of our prefrontal cortex millennia ago were ...