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Neuroscience

Articles about different approaches to study the nervous system at different scales. Neuroscience strives for the understanding of the biological basis of learning, memory, behavior, perception, and consciousness.

Lucid Dreaming as an Intervention for Nightmares in Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

About 80% of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients suffer from nightmares or dysphoric dreams that cause major distress and impact nighttime or daytime functioning.

The Anarchic Brain: How Psychedelics Change the Mind and Brain

Psychedelics alter people’s personalities, their politics, and their beliefs about the world.

Expanding Reality Through Consciousness: A Fascinating Interview With A Neurosurgeon

Mario Beauregard, PhD., is a neuroscientist currently affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona.

Consciousness, free energy and cognitive algorithms

Consciousness studies: from the Bayesian brain to the field of consciousness Different theoretical approaches have tried to model consciousness and subjective experience, from phenomenology (Husserl, 1913), cognitive psychology and neuroscience (Baars, 2005; Dehaene, 2014), artificial intelligence and cybernetics (Baars Franklin, 2009; Rudrauf Debbané, 2018), statistical physics and probabilistic models (Solms

Using A Smart Phone Can Cause Structural Differences In Your Brain

A new study recently published by German researchers from Heidelberg University show differences in brain structure between people with 'smart phone addition' compared to people without it.

Neuroscience Reveals How You Can Help Make Your Brain Decades Younger

Multiple studies have shown that meditation literally alters the structure of various parts of the brain.

Phenomenal Consciousness and Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap

The role of emergence in the creation of consciousness has been debated for over a century, but it remains unresolved.

Type of brain cell involved in stuttering identified: Discovery could lead to targets for new therapies

The loss of astrocytes, a supporting cell in the brain, was most prominent in the corpus callosum, a part of the brain that bridges the two hemispheres.

Scratching the surface of how your brain senses an itch: Set of neurons in spinal cord help transmit a light-touch signal from skin to brain

Salk researchers have discovered how neurons in the spinal cord help transmit such itch signals to the brain.

Optic nerve stimulation to aid the blind

"We believe that intraneural stimulation can be a valuable solution for several neuroprosthetic devices for sensory and motor function restoration.

Shedding light on how the human eye perceives brightness

The findings could contribute to more effective therapies for complications that relate to the eye.

A short bout of exercise enhances brain function: Researchers discover a gene in mice that's activated by brief periods of exercise

Neuroscientists at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, working with mice, have discovered that a short burst of exercise directly boosts the function of a gene that increases connections between neurons in the hippocampus, the region of the brain associated with learning and memory. The research is published online in the journal

'Mystical' psychedelic compound found in normal brains of rats

The active ingredient responsible for these psychedelic visions is a molecule called dimethyltryptamine (DMT).

The neuroscience of autism: New clues for how condition begins

The discovery, published in Neuron, illuminates the molecular details of a key process in brain development and adds to the scientific understanding of the biological basis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition linked to brain development and estimated to affect about one in 59 children born in the United

Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains," said Bevil Conway, Ph.D., investigator in the NIH's Intramural Research Program and a senior author of the study published in Nature Neuroscience. "The results raise the possibility that