Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - slightly and temporarily - by stimulating two areas of the brain ...
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While participants made these choices, the research team applied transcranial alternating current stimulation to the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain. This non-invasive stimulation was designed ...
Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...
As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments ...
Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...
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 ...
A Norwegian government scientist who doubted that pulsed-energy weapons could harm the brain decided to test the idea on himself. He built a pulsed-energy device in 2024 and, according to people ...
New research suggests the astringent sensation caused by flavanols could act as a direct signal to the brain, triggering ...
In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...