Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression-but only in females. According to a new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

A new study has found that stronger communication between the cerebellum and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain associated with higher-order thinking—is linked to reduced severity ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...