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By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive parts of the neural pattern used ...

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Patel and colleagues took 20 healthy adults and dropped them into a seven-day retreat that was part classroom, part monastery ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new player in Alzheimer’s disease: a protein called CSE that helps produce tiny ...

Why can images of things we have seen seem so real when we later recall them from memory? A new study led by Cedars-Sinai ...

The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries ...

The familiar brain freeze can strike suddenly and painfully – here is how to get rid of it quickly.

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...