Diverse sensory and cognitive functions rely on complex and dynamic neural interactions between cortical and subcortical brain areas to coordinate incoming inputs and feedback processes, creating ...

Injury to the subcortical structures of the inner brain is a major contributor to worsening neurological abnormalities after "awake craniotomy" for brain tumors, a new study reports. Injury to the ...

In recent years, subcortical small-vessel disease has become an increasingly common cognitive diagnosis. Researchers have now shown that it is possible to identify patients with the disease by ...

As illustrated by the cover of his book "The Fabric of Mind," my father (Richard Bergland, M.D.) always preferred sagittal cross sections of the brain because this vantage point best illustrates the ...

John Nash won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. By then, his most important mathematical work was decades behind him, his psychosis had largely receded, and he had spent years doing ...