In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don’t.

The authors of a new study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, investigate links between sleep architecture and brain regions ... crucial biological functions and is ...

Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using ...

The idea of work-life balance has given way to a more dynamic model: work-life integration. But what does science say about ...

Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and ...

These findings provide some evidence that reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) may contribute to brain atrophy, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD).

Serotonin is often painted as the brain's "pleasure chemical" but its precise role in the nervous system is ambiguous and perplexing: It's implicated in everything from mood and movement ...

Although the brain represents only 2% of body weight, it consumes 20% of our energy. A recent study sheds light on the ...

How chromatin openness controls behavioral changes remains unclear. This work implicates alternative promoter selection, ...

A new study published in Nature offers the most detailed map to date of how individual cell types in the brain change with age. Scientists analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young and aged ...

Brain Immune Cells May Also Be from 'Mars and Venus' Jan. 21, 2025 — Researchers find that microglia function differently ... of cross 'talk' between two regions of the brain, and ...

Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announc ...