In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

Understanding others’ beliefs—especially false ones—is key to human communication and begins to develop between ages three ...

In people with benign MS, there is a loss of overall brain tissue but other parts of the brain may grow to help compensate ...

Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and ...

Summary: Psychosis may start not with hallucinations, but with subtle motor changes like reduced grip strength. A new study ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through ...

The primary visual cortex (V1) is probably the best characterized area of primate cortex, but whether this region contributes directly to conscious visual experience is controversial. Early ...

Experiences of insight come with a burst of brain activity — and a memory boost.

People report significantly higher pain levels when instructed to focus on overall pain when experiencing two pains at once, ...