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Neuroscience supports the notion that mindfulness and meditation should become essential assets in our workspaces.
Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
If you want to achieve new goals, harness your brain's ability to change chemically, structurally, and functionally.
Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.
New research shows that the transition from general to specific memories involves the maturation of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.
In a study involving mice, scientists used two different techniques — one optogenetic and one pharmacologic — to recover "lost" memories.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.
Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Does memory start to work only at a certain age?
Whenever you're surprised, there's a good chance that your brain is busy tweaking your memories.
Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it's an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?