A recent study suggests that triggering specific, sleep-like brain wave patterns in awake mice can provide the brain with the ...
Although we've all experienced the sensation of "eating" with our eyes and noses before food meets mouth, much less is known about the information superhighway, known as the vagus nerve, that sends ...
An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...
A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...
The same memory can feel vivid and accessible one moment, yet stubbornly out of reach the next - even when the memory itself remains intact.
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...
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. The largest part of the ...