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The findings show that even small areas in the brain may have the potential to represent complex meanings.
There are hints that it could lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other brain disorders.
Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
More than 200 years ago, scientists tried to figure out how bats navigate in the dark (or without eyes). This set in motion a series of events that led to the development of ultrasound as a form of psychotherapy.