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Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

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

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

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

From IIT Kanpur to MIT, Professor Mriganka Sur's journey spans electrical engineering to pioneering neuroscience, driven by a ...

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Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism ...

So why is laughter so hard to control? Research suggests that there are two kinds of laughs: helpless, involuntary laughter ...