By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

The human brain is a complex, multi-regional structure, and most brain organoids do not recapitulate its complexity and connectivity across different brain areas. For example, human induced ...

The human brain and body are intricate systems that have been fine-tuned over millions of years to prioritize survival. One of the ways they achieve this is by favoring the status quo, or what is ...

A project at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has developed a novel imaging protocol to observe the brain's structure and dynamics. Published in Nature Methods, the findings open ...

Can we map the brain to show its behavior patterns when a patient is healthy and sick? This is what a recent study published in Nature Methods hopes to address as a team of researchers at the ...

As individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) move from the mild cognitive impairment stage to moderate and severe dementia, complex awareness deteriorates although lower-level sensory awareness is ...