A new study published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease has found that an overabundance of inhibitory connections in a ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

A circuit that runs from the prefrontal cortex near the front of the brain to a deeper brain structure called the insular ...

Prefrontal cortex biopsies taken for research purposes during deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures appeared to be safe, new research has suggested. Investigators found no significant differences in ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

New research reveals a mental workaround that is activated through repetition and experience.

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...