The cerebral cortex is the brain’s CEO; it regulates higher-order functions such as motor learning and attention through its connections to brain structures such as the dorsal striatum, which is historically divided into just four regions. Today, USC researchers said they are the first to create the most comprehensive map of connections between the dorsal striatum and the cerebral cortex that is available for any mammal.

Pinchas Gutter survived a Nazi death camp — and now his story will live on through a hologram that can answer your questions, thanks to USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies and USC Shoah Foundation.

The Market Match program facilitates discount prices on fruits and vegetables for low-income shoppers. USC’s Howard Greenwald says 70 percent of participants say they are buying more produce than without the program.

If policymakers want to reduce the number of American infant deaths, their strategies should focus on those older than one month from lower-income families, a new study finds. The analysis compared American infant deaths to those of several European nations, as well as comparing figures between U.S. states.

To reduce the mortality rate, focus should be put on infants older than a month, analysis finds.

Five-year USC study finds significant differences between kids who learned to play instruments and those who didn’t.

Trojans volunteer and reach out worldwide.

USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics joins the Brookings Institution to launch the Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy.

Several sessions are planned throughout the summer, including some as far away as New York and Shanghai.

Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC suggests there’s a physiological reason that seniors fall victim to financial scams: Complex financial decisions require connections between different parts of the brain, and those connections break down as we age.