Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." ...

Little is known about the associated brain activation during these sleep rhythms, and even less about their functional implications. In this study, we investigated the brain-wide activation underlying ...

Three studies at the University of Zurich demonstrate that hypnosis alters activity in the large-scale functional networks of ...

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in ...

According to Bottemanne and Joly, brain imaging studies have shown that fathers can experience alterations in gray matter across many different brain regions. Gray matter is the cortical tissue that ...

This also leads us to wonder if it is the “high” of the romance we are after. Often, it is the “high” triggered by the ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Despite its rapid development in recent decades, the video camera industry is still catching up with the capabilities of the human eye ... egg-shaped structure in the center of the brain, below the ...

Scientists discover a brain pathway that helps suppress fear, offering new hope for anxiety and PTSD treatment.

Scientists recorded increase brain activity just before the patient died. What happens to the human brain as people are on the precipice of death is an enigma that has perplexed ordinary folks and ...