Diverse sensory and cognitive functions rely on complex and dynamic neural interactions between cortical and subcortical brain areas to coordinate incoming inputs and feedback processes, creating ...

Adhering in midlife to the MIND diet -- a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets -- was linked with higher volumes in certain brain regions, data ...

Recently, the team led by Chief Physician Quan Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital systematically evaluated the genetic associations between type 2 ...

Human consciousness requires arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness Brain imaging studies over the last decade have produced connectivity maps of the cortical networks that sustain awareness, but ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers have mapped how different parts of the brain work together. Specifically, they ...

"When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over ...