neuroscience

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Could neuroscience help a Jeffrey Dahmer or a Ted Bundy become… better people?

A new study explains why some people seem to be better than others at ridding their minds of intrusive thoughts.

How do people with a split brain continue to function as a single human being? 

Acupuncture has a bad rap in the scientific community, but can modern brain scanning techniques redeem it?

A new study overturns the conventional thinking about how we focus our visual attention.

You’ve heard that “perception is reality.” Well, it’s not. It might even be a hallucination.

The discovery of a neuron in the brain that acts as the “master controller” of habits could someday change the way we treat addiction and compulsive behaviors.

When it comes to climate change, gun control, and vaccinations, facts don’t change people’s minds—but there is one technique that might.

There are four main stages. Each has its own particular set of advancements and challenges.   

Is creativity a wild and free state of mind, or is it actually a pattern that others just can’t recognize?

Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.

It’s all in your mind. Really. Everything bad in the world might be coming from one particular part of the human brain.

In her new book, professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett proposes a radical new theory of emotions.

Natural selection has left us with a world of optimists—is this healthy?

If you want to be a memory champion, this test is a good way to get started. Then maybe we can get a start on curing Alzheimer’s. 

David Eagleman, neuroscientist and host of ‘The Brain’ on PBS, will speak at the Los Angeles Hope Festival on Sunday, May 21. The event is free but seats are limited.

A new study shows how talking to yourself may help your brain perform better.

A new study finds a connection between brain lesions and the ability of a person to consider other beliefs.

Our brains didn’t evolve to see the world accurately, we only perceive what is useful and apply meaning to it. Neuroscientist Beau Lotto shows us how the sausage of reality is made.

When it comes to time, and what the heck it actually is, there’s a clash of ideas between physics and neuroscience.

Even our most imaginative expectations of AI are only primitive — but as neuroscience understands the brain more deeply, it will unlock the full potential of hybrid intelligence.

If you cloned yourself perfectly, would the clone have the same mind? At the heart of this question is an investigation into what – and where – consciousness is.

A patient’s brain showed activity for nearly 10 minutes after death, baffling doctors and prompting the need for further research.

Here are two cutting-edge neuroscience technologies that may enable us to treat conditions like blindness, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.

Two recent studies reveal the effects of LSD on the brain.

Oasis had it right: stop crying your heart out. Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that empathy may be working against our best interests, and that compassion may be a better strategy.

Canadian scientists discover how being bilingual creates advantages for the brain.

“Lifelong learning is extremely important,” says Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, “and the more we learn about life span the more important we realize it is.”

A new study suggests the brain gets more desensitized to lying with each lie you tell.