A new study identifies brain area 46 in the marmoset dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as a key regulator of mood-related ...

Previous research had suggested that neurons in the brain region holding this internal map, called the primary somatosensory ...

A detailed new map of the human brain's outer layer identifies nearly 100 brain areas that have not been previously reported, according to a new study. In the study, researchers identified a total ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Aug. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — “Phantom limb” pain has been a curious ...

The man reported experiencing joy for the first time in decades after the treatment. “He was crying and saying, ‘I’m not sad, ...

The result is a map of 180 cortical areas in each of the brain's hemispheres—more than half of them completely new. In fact, they're not even sure what some of them do.

Functional MRI uses blood flow to measure broad areas of activity in the brain. However, it does not directly measure neuron activation, nor more subtle nuances in brain activity.

Understanding how brain areas communicate is one of the oldest questions in neuroscience. Researchers used causal techniques to uncover how two neocortical areas in the brain communicate with one ...

Disentangling interactions across brain areas Date: March 1, 2022 Source: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Summary: Researchers are simultaneously recording populations of ...

Putting together all that data helped identify these new areas. The cortex’s thickness, for instance, varies from brain region; in some places it is as thin as 1mm and in others, as thick as 4.5mm.

A new study from the University of California, San Francisco has upended a long-held assumption in neuroscience about how the brain organizes the sounds of speech. For over 150 years, Broca’s ...