When life ruptures your sense of self, creativity is how the brain rewrites the story. Here's the neuroscience behind why it ...

The experiment was conducted by researchers at Stanford University in the United States as part of a wider study involving patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegener ...

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Unthinkable: Some tips for anyone who feels their thoughts are being polluted by their smartphone, a mad king or even an ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, health care professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are "mind blind." The phrase ...

People with aphantasia are offering brain scientists a window into consciousness. This is an audio version of our Feature: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?