Neuroscience

Scientists monitored rats reaction to stress over a 21-day period to find out what brain mechanisms affected their susceptibility or resilience to anhedonia.

While the undertaking sounds like an intriguing proposition in and of itself, the purpose of the study is to highlight the importance of enriched environments in lab-based animal studies.

Billions of dollars have already been spent trying to develop consciousness in machines.

The controversial condition was classified as a disorder last year.

Image was posted to Twitter and has now been shared over 1,000 times.

Munira Abdulla had been in a "minimally conscious" state since a car crash in 1991.

Is "my brain made me do it" a valid argument for shorter prison sentences?

The perception of something as basic as whether an object is convex or concave is not reliably the same across people and populations.

Scientists showed volunteers photos of cute animals and babies and monitored their brain activity.

The subjective experience of consciousness and associated psychological processes—thoughts, beliefs, ideas, intentions and more—are products of non-conscious processes, researchers say.

"We found that people who hold radical political beliefs have worse metacognition than those with more moderate views," said the study's lead author.

Scientists are increasingly researching the potential benefits of psychoactive drugs.

Scientists believe drugs take over mechanisms in the brain which form memories, potentially offering one explanation for substance abuse and addiction.  

Scientists have examined human brain cells to find out how they differ from rat brain cells.

Researchers from Emory University have conducted one of the first studies to use brain imaging techniques in order to investigate how canines process words.

"One could imagine 'social networks' of connected brains in the future producing innovative and creative solutions to humanity's most important scientific and societal problems," said study author Rajesh Rao.

Why does time race by when you're in a hurry but lag when you're bored?

The child had a third of his brain's right hemisphere removed in order to prevent increasingly severe epileptic seizures.

The answer to mystery of the brain.

Researchers discovered the act of remembering creates a window of time in which memories can be changed, and fears can be rewritten in the brain.

Highly empathic people have more brain activation while listening to music.

The testing on monkeys is being done in China because it would be too costly and controversial in the United States.

Scientists believe the technique could be replicated in humans with more research.

Sleeping in over the weekend could counteract the negative effects of short sleeps during the week, according to a new study.

Our gut feelings may be more rational than we think.

Researchers transplanted the "memories" using genetic material.

What if we had the ability to fool our brain into thinking that we'd experienced something that never happened?

The finding could have important implications for our understanding of how both normal learning and neurological disorders may occur.

Human brain cells were implanted in the baby mice.

The Troxler effect is useful in evolutionary terms because it enabled us to focus our attention on dangerous predators.