For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to the visual system rather than a generic broadcast signal. The findings ...

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 ...

MRI image of human cerebral cortex with stereotaxic localization of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Source: Rberlow/Wikimedia Commons Researchers in the UK have discovered that using ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...