Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

According to new research, your nose isn’t just along for the ride when you eat — it’s doing some of the tasting, too.

“There’s a brain region close to your temples, the fusiform gyrus ... The researchers think this signal is then evaluated by another region, the anterior insula, which was active while participants ...

A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

Too much alone time during teenage years may do more than affect friendships. While some solitude is normal, persistent withdrawal may raise the risk of mental health issues later in life ...

Janina Seubert receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 947886) and from the Swedish ...

High-ventilation breathwork with music can evoke psychedelic-like states, shifting blood flow in the brain and reducing negative emotions. Participants experienced unity and bliss, pointing to a ...

Researchers in the Clinical Neuroscience Department of Brighton and Sussex Medical School conducted breathwork research in a physiology lab and MRI scanner (from Air Hunger documentary). Breathwork ...