People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

A skin condition tied to delusions is posing a riddle for doctors: What to do when a diagnosis causes offense?

We are in sound overload, even when we are not consciously aware of it. Those with misophonia may be casualties of the overwhelming environment.

Cognitive neuroscience is the field of study focusing on the neural substrates of mental processes. It is at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, but also overlaps with physiological ...

Older adults dealing with depression often face compounding challenges when they become intensely fearful of their own ...

Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson sparked fierce debate after an involuntary outburst of offensive language at the BAFTAs as a result of coprolalia, a rare, misunderstood symptom of Tourette syndrom ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

This study presents a potentially valuable exploration of the role of thalamic nuclei in language processing. The results will be of interest to researchers interested in the neurobiology of language.

Q: Why is everyone making such a big deal about the health of Americans these days? Our life expectancy has increased to an all-time high. — Carl P., Salt Lake ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...