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What outsiders see as bizarre, many sufferers describe as a lifelong feeling of incompleteness. This analysis dives into the ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

Scientists are finding microplastics in human brain tissue. Learn what that means for mental and neurological health, and ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have discovered a new biological mechanism that enhances the production of myelin—a ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain. Using advanced 7T MRI, they found these tiny pulsations grow stronger with ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...