Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame
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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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Oh, it brings such blessed relief and now scientists can tell you why -- scratching an itch temporarily shuts off areas in the brain linked with unpleasant feelings and memories.
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The brain&#39;s response to another person&#39;s body language may help explain why humans are quite efficient at fleeing from danger, according to researchers.
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Scientists have discovered that the sweetness of revenge may have a neurological basis. A Swiss brain imaging study shows that punishing people when they behave unfairly
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Can a rational awareness of flavor chemistry and amine circuitry influence and heighten our actual sensory experience of food?
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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where people&#39;s dreams are created. A team from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, made the discovery after treating a woman who stopped dreaming after she had a stroke.
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Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings from a small study suggest.
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What happens in the online world can be a freeing experience. Sometimes too freeing, so be careful out there. Commentary by Gina Lynn.
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People who have frequent migraines are also more likely to develop brain damage, according to research published yesterday. Richard Lipton, a professor at New York&#39;s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said
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A new brain imaging study shows that when people tell the truth and lie, they use different parts of their brains. Scientists are exploiting these brain changes to develop an imaging technique
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NEW YORK  - Patients with chronic pain  disorders, such as fibromyalgia, appear to have abnormalities  in the self-monitoring mechanism that allows the discrimination  of internally produced versus externally produced stimuli, new  research shows.
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NEW YORK  - Patients in a minimally  conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who  demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may  retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they  can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings  from a small study suggest.
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NEW YORK  - The brain's response to another  person's body language may help explain why humans are quite  efficient at fleeing from danger, according to researchers.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Functional MRI is helping researchers reveal how the human brain operates and the ways in which it affects emotion and reason. By Rowan Hooper.
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Patients with chronic pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia, appear to have abnormalities in the self-monitoring mechanism that allows the discrimination of internally produced versus externally produced stimuli, new research shows.
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.