Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your ...

A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a ...

Everyone sees themselves through their own eyes, but our memories shape how we judge the person staring back in the mirror.

A new study published in the journal Psychophysiologyreveals that listening to music can alter brain connectivity and improve a person’s ability to estimate the passage of time. The research offers a ...

According to new research, communication between the gut and the brain is sophisticated enough to be classed as a new and distinct sense – one capable of affecting our appetite and even our mood. This ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...

The […] intuition that the conscious self is somehow apart from the rest of nature—a really-existing immaterial inner observer looking out onto a material ...

Laura Sanders: This episode deals with mental illness, depression, and suicide. Please listen with care. Previously on The Deep End. Shannon O’Neill: And DBS is not going to give you happiness. It’s ...