A developmental cognitive neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity is exploring an ...

Changes in the brain linked to a risk of Alzheimer’s disease may also make some older adults vulnerable to financial scams, according to new research. Alzheimer’s patients can become targets for ...

We may also be more inclined to cling to ideas and values that make us feel part of something bigger than ourselves when experiencing existential uncertainty. That’s why some people find themselves ...

The researchers focused on a region of the brain that acts as a relay station between the hippocampus — the brain’s learning and memory center — and the medial prefrontal cortex, which ...

Pregnancy brings profound changes, not only to a woman’s body but also to her brain. Recent studies highlight how pregnancy ...

The hippocampus is a forebrain structure located within the medial temporal lobe that ... Studies of rule shifts have focused mainly on prefrontal cortex. Here, the authors show that activity ...

The anterior prefrontal cortex. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin ... Increased activity in other parts of the ...

Using data from the Human Connectome Project, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contains four subdivisions of BA8 (8BL, 8Ad, 8Av, and 8C) and two transitional areas between areas 6 and 8 (s6-8 and i6 ...

This increases gamma oscillations in the auditory cortex and prefrontal cortex ... Whether the posterior medial (POm) thalamic nucleus processes whisking kinematics was not clear from studies ...

Our findings offer a unique perspective on how higher-order brain systems interact with the sensorimotor cortex to facilitate learning, highlighting the dynamic changes in functional coupling between ...

Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a 'meta-learning' function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this ...