Rutgers researchers are revealing how the brain decides which sensory experiences previously associated with an adverse experience should trigger a fear response.

An exploratory study of people with major depressive disorder found that the shape and structure of several regions of the ...

Reaction time may shift with each breath, with a study finding that people responded slowest during inhalation.

Many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, are characterized by the accumulation of protein clumps, or aggregates, in the brain, which has led scientists to assume ...

When we learn something new, our brain cells (neurons) communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. If the same group of neurons communicate together often, the connections ...

Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less fine-tuned in people with autism, research suggests. When someone ...

There is no treatment available today to stop the death of brain cells in neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, ...

When the body's temperature falls, it adapts by burning more energy to generate heat and triggering appetite to replace the ...

A new model reveals that bursts of neural activity known as critical avalanches underlie the brain’s ability to respond consistently to stimuli. According to the “critical brain hypothesis,” the human ...

When Your Brain Ghosts You At The Mic You can present a flawless deck, edit a 30 page report in one sitting, and hold court ...