Exposure to trauma leads to a cascade of biological changes and stress responses. There are changes in the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex areas of the brain. There are physiological ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

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Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

An international team of scientists led by the University of Surrey has discovered that a form of safe, painless, and non-invasive brain stimulation could help people who are at risk of falling behind ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

An image from the research shows axons from neurons in the ACA (red) and ORB (green) innervating the visual cortex, targeting discrete layers. Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT ...