New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body ...

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study from New York University shows that some ordinary human cells ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

"These RNAs seem to act like postal codes for gene repression," said Dr. Anuj K. Verma, lead author of the study. "They help direct the polycomb complex to precise chromatin neighborhoods where stress ...