An intermediary thalamic relay station (incoming neurons in red, outgoing neurons in green). (Kuno et al., Cell Rep., 2026) A ...

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.

Deep within the brain, scientists have uncovered a hidden “switch” that may decide whether pain fades away—or lingers for ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, a Boston College research team led by John Christianson explored how a pathway between two areas of ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes ...