Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new study from the University of Toyama, Japan, reveals that our ability to ...

Recent neuroscience studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enhanced our understanding of how sleep is related to learning and memory. A study just reported in the journal ...

Patients with chronic back pain reported heightened unpleasantness of auditory stimuli and mechanical pressure.

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people. People ...

Trauma doesn’t always end when the danger is over. For many, the body and brain remain locked in survival mode, long after the traumatic event has passed. This is the painful reality of post-traumatic ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh.