When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

Music influences emotion, memory, and mental health, and serves as a tool for healing and joy. Explore the roots of its power ...

WASHINGTON: Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

The brain is populated by a network of cells including neurons that are activated by sensory stimuli such as sight or sound or touch and are connected by synapses. Cognitive function involves the ...

Dr. Adam Scioli, chief medical officer at Caron Treatment Centers in Pennsylvania, said it is known that the reward system of the brain helps to imprint memory. "It makes sense that any substance ...

Serotonin is often painted as the brain's "pleasure chemical" but its precise role in the nervous system is ambiguous ... like the start of a signal that reward will arrive soon or the end of ...

Summary: New research reveals that Type 2 diabetes may impair the brain’s reward and memory processing in ways that mirror early Alzheimer’s disease. The study focuses on the anterior cingulate cortex ...

Summary: The brain constantly evaluates whether stimuli are positive ... i.e. when a stimulus is associated with a reward or punishment, both types of neurons are activated and work together, but they ...

If this anecdotal data can be supported by controlled clinical trials, it may tell us a lot about how the brain processes anticipation and reward – and could also suggest whole new ways of ...