Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

The human brain is a complex, multi-regional structure, and most brain organoids do not recapitulate its complexity and connectivity across different brain areas. For example, human induced ...

The human brain and body are intricate systems that have been fine-tuned over millions of years to prioritize survival. One of the ways they achieve this is by favoring the status quo, or what is ...

A project at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has developed a novel imaging protocol to observe the brain's structure and dynamics. Published in Nature Methods, the findings open ...

A new study published in Cell is reshaping our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the brain, the proteins that are present at synapses. Titled "The proteomic landscape of synaptic ...

Meditation doesn’t "empty the mind", as some imagine. In fact, brain scans reveal that the meditating mind is not in a ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is converging on a counterintuitive idea: the disorderly brain activity triggered by LSD might actually work against the hyper-synchronized neural firing that ...

Meditation may calm the mind, but a recent study suggests it can also reshape brain activity by profoundly altering brain ...