They discovered that flashes of insight trigger a burst of activity in the brain’s hippocampus, a cashew-shaped structure ...

Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain ...

OSA-related hypoxemia linked to increased frontoparietal cerebrovascular pathology, which is associated with reduced medial temporal lobe integrity.

Secondary psychosis caused by a lesion was mapped to the hippocampus, with a peak in the posterior subiculum and was consistent across symptoms.

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, ...

Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

Dangers come but dangers also go, and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its ...

In a recent meta-study, researchers from Jülich have uncovered differences in the brain regions associated with chronic sleep disorders and short-term sleep deprivation. These findings were published ...

“This finding, that the tiny region of the brain we record from has a lot more than just speech information, has led to the participant also being able to control his own computer on a daily basis, ...

We now see that unlearning fear isn't just about suppressing it - it's a positive learning process powered by the brain's reward machinery." Read More: What is Anxiety and How Can Worries Overpower Us ...