Creative people have a rich imagination but also are grounded in reality. Prior neuroscience research suggests that creative ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

By crafting an artificial brain-like environment with microscopic nanopillars, researchers have successfully guided neurons ...

One of the most attractive traits in a human is being OK with the outcome of things, regardless of what the outcome is. They ...

If so, you’re not alone. Overthinking and overwhelm are common challenges, but a simple and powerful technique can help: the brain dump. By offloading your thoughts onto paper or a digital tool ...

I discussed how the interaction between three particular brain networks supports creative thinking: the executive attention network, the default mode network (which I called the “imagination ...

A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an ...

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs. The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

As a specialist in the neurotoxicity of lead, Cory-Slechta remembers thinking ... enough for public health is doing something at the brain level,” says Megan Herting, a neuroscientist ...

By embedding threads containing electrodes within the human brain, the company’s device allows paralyzed patients to engage with digital devices through their thoughts. Arbaugh, for example ...

To help my thinking about how brain-rot language has evolved into its current state, I returned to the internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch’s 2019 book, Because Internet: Understanding the New ...