Comparing consciousness to a plasma ball can help us better understand key aspects of subjective conscious experience.

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

The link between gut microbiome and eating behaviours, especially palatable food intake, is a growing focus of scientific ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic relationship between the topological structure of human brain ...

The human sense of touch is a complex system that integrates diverse sensations such as pain, temperature, and pleasant ...

When my fixation on sweet treats spiraled out of hand, I turned to hypnosis as a last resort. The experience changed me in more ways than one.

Three developmental neuroscientists presented their research on adolescent brain development and the risk factors for ...

Typically when a new fishing world record is set it breaks the previous record by a few ounces, maybe a pound or two. But a massive cobia caught in ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain ...

The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...