Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

They’re the possessions that tell your story: the photos of old friends and relatives. The ring your mom left you. The hand-knit Christmas stockings.

In the intricate dance of human interaction, the ability to discern truth from falsehood is a coveted skill, particularly as ...

The hippocampus, home of memory, draws on past experience to try to put the nature of the threat into context. The prefrontal cortex, which receives all the information to create a coherent ...

New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-predominant ...

Serious video games may improve some symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in combination with ...

Using computational models, the researchers studied how the brain's reward-learning system functions in those with depression, especially among individuals experiencing anhedonia, the inability to ...

House G.O.P. Floats Medicaid Cuts and More to Finance Trump’s Huge Agenda President Trump wants a massive tax cut and immigration crackdown bill. Republicans must decide what to cut to help pay ...

In a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists Pearl Chiu and Brooks Casas investigate how brain signals involved in reward learning might help ...

Bourne Resident Elaine E. Lebar no longer knows where she lives, but when she is at the piano she knows she is home.” ...