The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new ...

Explore the intricate relationship between the brain and addiction, shedding light on neurobiological underpinnings and ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example ...

The biological roots of Tourette disorder occur in the basal ganglia, structures deep in the brain involved in the control of ...

For decades, most neuroscientists thought that one area of the brain, the basal ganglia, was responsible for action selection and another area, the motor cortex, for action specification. Now, using a ...

Neuroscientists have found a link between vocal changes and the aging brain in zebra finch songbirds, which could help lead to earlier diagnoses for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ...

"I unknowingly rode with huge tumors in my brain for 6 months and those big ones are gone now ... The X-Men star was treated ...