Scientists narrow optimism area in brain
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to dampen down the impact of bad memories in people's brains.
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Most people have had deja vu -- that eerie sense of having experienced something before -- but U.S. researchers have identified the part of the brain responsible for this sensation, and they think it may lead to new treatments for memory-related problems.
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U.S. scientists have, for the first time, applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task.  People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time, said Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Tomaso Poggio.
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A brain protein has been discovered to play a major role in reducing stress and increasing wakefulness, a finding that could lead to treatments for sleep disorders, anxiety and depression.
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Looking at someone who is scared triggers a brain response that tells you to be afraid too, say researchers.
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A popular purveyor of atheism comes out with a neurological study that shows little difference between the way our brains process religious and "objective" beliefs
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Researchers have confirmed what common wisdom has long held -- that people can suppress emotionally troubling memories -- and said on Thursday they have sketched out how the brain accomplishes this.
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New research suggests that if you are an optimist you are more likely to live longer than someone who is a pessimist, someone who sees the glass half empty.
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Researchers have unveiled a new way to map the brainâs billions of neurons.
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Science & environment: Political differences might be explained by a fundamental variation in how our brains are 'wired' to process information, study says.
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Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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For more than two decades, New York scientist Richard Axel and colleague Linda B. Buck have shared a singular pursuit: to understand how the brain perceives the world&#39;s myriad of smells - from the scent of roses to the scent of refuse.
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These are hopeful times for those who like to think the prospects of life elsewhere are good.
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Mice engineered to lack a stress-related brain protein appear to become depressed in stressful situations, providing insight into a possible source of human depression.
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Microscopic imaging techniques have enabled scientists to delve deep into the brain of a living animal to see how visual circuitry works.