Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain ...

Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, ...

Across the globe, more than a billion people live with obesity. It's not just a matter of weight—it's tied to serious health ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

The researchers found that consciousness may not arise in the “smart” part of the brain — the frontal areas where thinking is ...

The human brain is constantly responding to its environment, storing memories, learning new skills, and navigating complex ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

This allowed them to monitor signals from different corners of the thalamus and the prefrontal cortex ... consciousness focused almost entirely on the cerebral cortex. That’s the outer layer of the ...

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.