Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

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 ...

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

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

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

Jeffrey Lawson was born prematurely in February 1985. Shortly afterward, the newborn had to undergo heart surgery without anesthesia. After Jeffrey Lawson’s death, his mother was told that her son had ...

If hearing an old song or getting a whiff of freshly sharpened pencils instantly carries you back to high school, you’re ...

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

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

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 ...

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