Smaller, shallow brain folds in the posteromedial cortex show greater thinning with age and Alzheimer’s disease, and their ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

While different parts of the brain process outside stimuli like sight and touch, the cerebral cortex puts these stimuli together to drive decision-making and problem-solving, among other functions.

Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the treatment of some neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression, some ...

Justin Lehman told his wife Chelsea he was feeling "overwhelmed" when he saw what Brutus had done and took unconventional ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

“We have a survival brain,” says Grant, “and without knowing it, when we see things that feel urgent, we pause and gird ...

Recent scientific evidence suggests consciousness is more than just a function of the brain and three theories have emerged ...

The Nobel Prize is the most significant recognition of a scientist’s work, but it also shines a spotlight that follows the ...