The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

Russian scientists have discovered how the brain makes purchasing decisions. Using electroencephalography (EEG) and ...

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to ...

Studies (for reference, see these two example studies in Nature Communications and Frontiers in Psychology) suggest that the brain’s salience system plays a central role in detecting and ...

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Smith's cousin had testified that Smith told her he ate part of Gonzalez's brain and an eyeball while drinking sake. The state's Psychiatric Security Review Board granted Smith conditional release ...

Smith’s cousin had testified that Smith told her he ate part of Gonzalez’s brain and an eyeball while drinking sake. The state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board granted Smith conditional release ...

Also, in everyday life, most of us see the heart and the brain as being quite unrelated ... from a therapist near you–a FREE service from Psychology Today.

Neuroscience explores the brain and nervous system at many different levels. On UCL’s three-year Human Neuroscience BSc, you will explore how our brains enable us to perceive the world, move, ...

Self-reported emotional state and EEG signals ... the National Basic Research Program of China (No2011CB711000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61273287, 30800298), and the Key ...

The cortex is the outer layer of the brain in which critical cognitive functions such as memory, language and perception take place. Interestingly, the findings also suggest that stopping smoking ...