Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...

A new study reported in Molecular Psychiatry has shown that people with anxiety disorders tend to have lower levels of a ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...