When a mouse sweeps a single whisker across a textured surface, a tight cluster of neurons in its brain lights up within milliseconds. That cluster sits inside a grid of cortical columns, each one ...

Chronic pain has long been described as a matter of raw sensation, a persistent alarm that the body cannot switch off. But a ...

The somatosensory cortex is a region of the mammalian brain known to play a crucial role in the processing of sensory information, including tactile sensations, temperature and pain. While this brain ...

A man who had lost meaningful movement and sensation in his hands after a severe spinal cord injury was able to grasp objects, feed himself and experience touch again using an experimental system ...

Stanford researchers implanted lab-grown human brain tissue into newborn rats, where it matured, connected to neural circuits, and helped scientists study brain development and disease.

The outermost layer of the brain's cerebral cortex is a major meeting point for information coming from across the brain.

This article summarizes the key points of the article "Decades-long debate settled: Brain neurons are 'generalists' rather than 'specialists'," published on 'BioMarket jp,' a news site reporting on ...

Scientists have grown human brain tissue to fill most of a mouse’s cortex, creating a new model for studying brain disease and neural circuits.