It appears that motivation, like sensation, has local centers in the brain Rats can be made to gratify the drives of hunger, thirst and sex by self-stimulation of their brains with electricity.

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

Thanks to a recent study involving a mouse watching "The Matrix", scientists were able to create the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...