Neuroscientists have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain. Neuropixels probes are a relatively recent ...

There is much going on around us all the time, phenomena that we perceive with our different senses, which send information to the brain. This complication is solved by an ancient part of the midbrain ...

More recent reports of brainstem tumors include diverse sites such as the cervicomedullary junction, pons, midbrain, or the tectum. Today, these tumors are broadly categorized as either diffuse ...

Chiari Malformation Type II: (Left and Middle) T2-weighted axial MRIs; (Right) T1-weighted sagittal MRI. The axial scans show several abnormalities, including descent of the cerebellar tonsils, an ...

To behave adaptively in a complex environment, an animal must select the most important stimulus at each moment for further neural processing. The selection of the highest priority stimulus for ...

Visual attention in primates is influenced by microstimulation of the frontal eye fields. A study in Nature now reports similar effects on auditory information processing after microstimulation of a ...

Spotting, pursuing, and catching prey - for many animals, this is an essential task for survival. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology now show in zebrafish that the localization of ...

For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the ...

The researchers' observations suggest that the retinal ganglion cells in both the optical tectum and the superior colliculi show similar spatial organization and functional wiring. Their findings led ...