Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for ...

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

A Southern Cross University geochemist is first author of a groundbreaking international study changing the view that ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped how nearly an entire mammalian brain lights up as decisions are made. The massive effort, which tracked single neurons across almost the whole mouse brain, ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception. The brain is constantly ...

Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke. Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in ...