It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

Scientists in France recently surgically removed a slow-growing brain tumor (a diffuse, low-grade glioma) from a patient. The surgery was a success, in more ways than one. It removed the patient’s ...

When pain strikes from multiple sources—such as a paper cut followed by contact with hot water—the experience can feel disproportionately intense. But is this agony merely additive, or does the brain ...

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We often make quick strategic decisions to attack an opponent or defend our position, yet how we make them is not well understood. Now, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have ...

Source: Daniel Cassidy - taken of SUNY New Paltz Psychology Faculty with Dr. Diego Fernandez-Duque Jargon. It’s everywhere. And every field has its own version. Even my beloved field of evolutionary ...

Decades before Alzheimer’s disease symptoms appear, neurons become hyperactive, and the reason could be that astrocytes fail to keep them in check. In a bioRxiv preprint uploaded on April 26, ...