Scientists tested two major theories about consciousness. They found the back of the brain handles fine visual details.

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Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...

In applying Principle 4, Feldenkrais recognized that applied minuscule sensory and motor distinctions were critical in ...

New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex are far more adaptable than previously thought, responding dynamically to complex stimuli during object recognition tasks.

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one ...

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Scientists create models by transplanting human brain cells culled from stem cells into the brains of animals such as mice, ...

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

However, after collapsing at work, Hannah took a CT scan and found a growth on her brain’s left frontal lobe. In December 2024, she was diagnosed with a non-cancerous cavernoma. Reacting to the ...

Six recently reported cases of benign (noncancerous) brain tumors among nurses at Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s fifth-floor maternity unit have sparked uneasiness among workers there, even as ...

A daily 10–15 minutes of mindful meditation leads to an increase in gray matter density in your hippocampus and other frontal regions of the brain, apart from an increase in cortical thickness. It ...