Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 109, No. 49 (December 4, 2012), pp. 19900-19909 (10 pages) Humans are adept at switching between goal-directed ...

Researchers have reported new evidence that cognitive abnormalities seen in neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia may be traceable to altered activity in the thalamus during adolescence, a ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...