Revenge, often portrayed as justice, is a chemical addiction in the brain, offering a temporary high followed by rumination ...

As anybody who has ever seen their videos, witnessed their gigs or read their interviews will tell you, post-emo wunderkinds My Chemical Romance are all about making grand gestures. In mid-August, My ...

How do you intuitively know that you can walk on a footpath and swim in a lake? Researchers from the University of Amsterdam have discovered unique brain activations that reflect how we can move our ...

This important study provides a novel approach for delineating subcortical-cortical white matter bundles. The authors provide convincing evidence by harnessing state-of-the-art methods and ...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've ...

For years neuroscientists have focused on the brain’s neurons as its principal creators of memory and thought. But what if ...

There is tremendous interest in the question of how salient, emotional and socially-charged visual stimuli are processed by the brain ... it is connected with the insula, a region that has ...