A brain circuit involved in addiction has been identified after researchers analysed smokers who immediately lost their nicotine cravings following brain damage. The finding could guide the use of ...

Certain drugs can produce an out-of-body experience, so can a pulse of electricity if it's sent to the right place in the brain. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a brain area that seems to keep us ...

A brain computer interface (BCI) is a neural device that translates a person’s brain activity into external responses or directives. For example, a BCI can allow someone who is paralyzed to direct a ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

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For decades, scientists have puzzled over whether the brain can change during the course of a lifetime. Today, we know it can. Neuroscientists call this “brain plasticity.” Also known as neural ...

The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago. The fish is facing to the right, with the jaws visible in the lower right portion ...