As humans and other animals navigate their surroundings and experience different things, their brain creates so-called ...

Review highlights how excessive fructose intake disrupts brain energy balance, appetite regulation, and cognitive function.

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

Orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus reinstate representations of causal choices to associate with delayed outcomes, and the frontal pole supports this credit assignment process by maintaining pending ...

How pleasurable music boosts μ-opioid receptor activity in the brain's reward centers, linking music to the body's natural ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Could a discovery in scanning enable psychiatrists to spot the neurological causes of depression in patients' brains and ...