Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

Sleep arises from the complex coordination of large-scale brain networks and homeostatic regulatory systems. However, understanding the causal mechanisms ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a new way to read the brain's "energy network ...

The human brain can concurrently support a wide range of advanced mental functions, including attention, memory and the processing of sensory stimuli. While past neuroscience studies have gathered ...

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

The transition between wakefulness and states of reduced consciousness, whether pharmacologically induced via anesthesia or pathologically necessitated by ...

Researchers mapped brain-wide astrocyte networks that link distant regions, proving these "support cells" have their own long ...

Nature heals the soul, but what does it do to the brain? Have you ever been on a camping or hiking trip to a national park ...