In brain studies of forgiveness, researchers find that forgiving activates structures and pathways in the brain that improve ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

Foetal MRI may offer greater diagnostic and prognostic value over ultrasound, especially in cases of brain anomalies, a ...

Most SSMs can be broken down into two key components: inputs and integrators ( Bogacz et al., 2006 ). Inputs encode the drift rate – the rate of evidence accumulation – and integrators encode the ...

Serotonin neurons in the brainstem are not independent, as once thought, but interact to influence decision-making.

Harvard psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport often navigates challenging clinical problems by leaning on established theory. Lately ...

Greek commandment Know thyself turns out to be a great modern way to become happier, more empathetic, and more successful.

Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling "drowsy" to "a complete absence ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process ... which performs object-recognition tasks, and the dorsal stream, which processes features ...

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by ...