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

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A new study has found that stronger communication between the cerebellum and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain associated with higher-order thinking—is linked to reduced severity ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression-but only in females. According to a new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ...

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

Scientists discerned that a person’s neural and behavioral outcomes shifted when simply vividly imagining a positive experience.