In World War II, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

A study has found that the cortex acts like a "memory machine", encoding new experiences and predicting the near future, ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Humans have certain instinctive fear reactions to things that won’t actually harm us—we might jump at a too-loud noise or ...

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

Researchers studied the mechanisms that learn to suppress instinctive fear responses. The study has implications beyond the ...

Researchers have identified brain mechanisms that help animals suppress instinctive fear responses when threats prove ...

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to ...

Scientists have identified brain circuitry that helps overcome fear, offering new insights into anxiety disorders and ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists has identified a mechanism that corrects visual distortions caused by movement in animals. The study, ...