Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the ...

With the most wonderful — and for some, the most stressful — time of year underway, a University of Iowa researcher is ...

Chronic stress can alter the brain’s fear and emotion systems, subtly influencing how we respond to everyday challenges and increasing vulnerability to anxiety if not addressed early.

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 ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...