Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Recent analysis of human brain tissue suggests that a small and often overlooked region deep within the brain may play a central role in bipolar disorder. Researchers found that neurons in the ...

Researchers have demonstrated how paraventricular thalamic nucleus neurons play a role in bipolar disorder pathology and highlighted their potential as a promising diagnostic and therapeutic target.

Panic disorder (PD) is a mental health disorder characterized by recurring panic attacks, episodes of intense fear and ...

The data were collected from people about to have surgery. They show that as anaesthesia takes hold, the interplay between ...

Turns out, your body isn’t just being dramatic—some colors really can make you physically sick. Welcome to the world of chromotoxicity, where your eyes, brain, and stomach have very strong opinions ...

Bipolar disorder can feel like a storm that erupts from nowhere, yet for decades the brain circuitry driving those brutal ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

The analysis of nearly 900 participants highlights the importance of the region that transforms thought into movement, ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...