How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew ...

How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

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 ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

How does the brain perceive time? A new fMRI study identifies a three-stage neural relay from the visual cortex to the frontal regions that constructs our subjective experience of duration and timing.

Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, has been awarded a $2.4 million five-year grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the ...

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Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinal cancer before he was two years old. By the time he was a teenager, he was mountain ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in ...

Findings published in the journal Cell Reports revealed that among people who displayed hypocrisy, the ventromedial ...