While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

Researchers have gained a first insight into how the brain structures higher-level information. By extracting and analysing data from a neural network of grid cells, they found that the collective ...

How the brain's inner chamber governs our state of consciousness University of Michigan researchers use propofol to uncover the interactions between the thalamus and cortex that underlie consciousness ...

Scientists Identify a Brain Structure That Filters Consciousness Our conscious awareness may be governed by a structure deep in the brain By Smriti Mallapaty & Nature magazine ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared to those who did not. Many of these structural ...