Scientists find the reason why people with schizophrenia hear voices — and maybe how to stop them
The brain’s failure to recognize its own speech may explain schizophrenia’s phantom voices.
Tag: brain activity
This scientist took a large dose of psilocybin to see how psychedelics work on the brain
It was all for... science!
Pig brain survives outside body for hours. Are humans next?
Scientists kept a pig's brain alive outside its body for five hours, challenging the boundaries between life, technology, and the ...
After scanning canine brains: “Dogs are people, too,” says neuroscientist
A neuroscientist believes dogs experience love and attachment comparable to a human child.
Helmet-like wearable scanner can record brain activity in moving subjects
This isn't a war helmet -- it's a revolutionary brain scanner!
What a worm’s brain looks like fired up
These aren't Christmas lights, but the actual neural activity of Caenorhabditis Elegans, a parasitic nematode. The brain imaging was done ...
Humiliation may be the most intense of human emotions
Photo: worldwidewhiskers.wordpress.com If you look back, you'll find that some of your most treasured memories are linked to powerful emotions, ...
Never before seen brain activity in deep coma detected
Coma patients, be it inflicted from trauma or initiated by doctors to preserve bodily functions, have their brain activity regularly ...
Poverty might cause changes to the brain
It's rather clear that social-economic factors have a huge part to play in the development of an individual, but when ...
Brain-computer interfaces are as easy to learn and use as waving a hand
Mind-controlled devices, also known as brain-computer interfaces, have evolved a lot in the past few years alone, offering countless people ...
Your brain detects grammar errors even when you’re not aware of them
A rather debatable theory in psychology says the brain detects grammar errors even when we don't consciously pay attention to them, ...
Autism can be detected by analyzing brain activity
Researchers Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have demonstrated for the first time that ...
How the brain concentrates at one speaker at time in noisy crowds
An illustration that represents how brain activity synchronizes to that of an attending speaker, while ignoring other speakers in background ...
How the brain loses and gains consciousness
For more than two centuries physicians have been using general anesthetics to perform surgeries, however even now in the 21st ...
