The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex.

Within the Psychological and Brain Sciences program, students have the option to focus in specific areas: Mind, Brain and Behavior, Human Development or Clinical and Health. For a select number of ...

In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The researchers hope that their findings ...

The study involved 256 participants, a record number for this type of research. Scientists used three different methods to measure brain activity.

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced by cellular organelles called mitochondria. However, surprisingly ...

This state, known in psychology as a "flow state," is pursued by those who want to be more productive and creative in an enjoyable way.What happens in the brain during this state, however, has ...

Welcome to the cognitive psychology graduate program, offered by the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. Our primary goal is to train a new generation of ...

Areas of the Brain. Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff. ... Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, parts of the brain that are both ... extending across all the brain’s lobes. Just 1.5 to 5 ...