Conscious experiences are not readily studied in animate. However, animal research is essential to understanding the brain mechanisms underlying psychological function. So how can we make study ...

How the Brain Integrates Pain Prediction and Stimuli Sep. 23, 2024 — A study has uncovered new insights into how the brain processes and integrates pain information. The research goes beyond ...

Major tracts of white matter - which provide connections between different parts of the brain - show evidence of increasing during pregnancy Pregnancy brain really does exist, according to one of ...

A newly devised ‘brain clock’ can determine whether a person’s brain is ageing faster than their chronological age would suggest 1. Brains age faster in women, countries with more inequality ...

Letter writer urges Gov. Henry McMaster to spare the life of inmate Freddie Owens, whose execution is schedule on Sept. 20.

A brain–machine interface (BMI) is a device that translates neuronal information into commands capable of controlling external software or hardware such as a computer or robotic arm. BMIs are ...

Some people refer to the combination of these symptoms as brain fog. Brain fog isn’t a formal diagnosis. The term may be used to indicate gradual or sudden challenges in your: ability to think ...

We may finally know how the brain processes a beat drop: people use two distinct brain networks to anticipate and identify transitions between segments in a piece of music. Musical boundaries ...

While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

As hormones surge, some brain areas shrink in what scientists say may be a fine-tuning that helps mothers bond with and care for their babies. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers brain health ...

These two factors are largely why the idea mobile phones might cause brain cancer emerged in the first place. The possibility that mobile phones might cause cancer has been a long-standing concern.

By Carl Zimmer The human brain, more than any other attribute, sets our species apart. Over the past seven million years or so, it has grown in size and complexity, enabling us to use language ...