This Collection calls for manuscripts that map the human brain at the anatomical, circuitry, cellular, and/or functional level. To understand how the brain functions in health and disease, knowledge ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by Oxford University Press suggests that the r ...

Your mental image of your brain probably looks something like what's pictured here. The cerebrum, shown here, is where all the really important stuff is supposed to happen in humans: consciousness, ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the ...