Beneath the human brain's bulging cerebral cortex, smaller structures toil in relative obscurity. Subcortical areas, also known as the 'deep brain,' play key roles in functions like attention, emotion ...

A genome-wide association study has identified a range of regions of the genome that control the size of subcortical brain structures. An international consortium of researchers found they could ...

Researchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's "locus coeruleus" in sleep and its ...

An international team of researchers led by Professor Dr. Lucas Schirmer and Professor Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez from the ...