From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered ...

Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

See α-Synuclein. Candidate tracer SY08 detects α-synuclein deposits in the brainstem (right) and parietal cortex (left) of people with Parkinson’s (middle) and dementia with Lewy bodies (bottom), but ...

An AI-powered brain-computer interface (BCI) solution translates brain activity into synthesized speech at nearly real-time ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

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

Summary: Touch is a vital sense, yet the brain processes active and passive touch using distinct pathways. In mice, ...

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD, cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small stroke, affecting only the thalamus.

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and ...