People with migraines experience a drop in the complexity of their innate brain activity, which leaves their neural networks ...

What Is the Default Mode Network? The default mode network is a system of connected brain areas that show increased activity when a person is not focused on what is happening around them. The DMN is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pre-kids, Sarah Freeman had a reputation as the brave one in her friend group because she didn’t hesitate to try things like bungee jumping. She hated being ...

A single dose of psilocybin temporarily disrupts and reshapes brain networks, effects that persist for weeks, potentially explaining its unique promise as a psychiatric therapy. Study: Psilocybin’s ...

Positive neuroscience is an emerging field that investigates the brain mechanisms underlying positive human functioning and flourishing. Instead of emphasizing the repair of pathology, positive ...

Summary: Researchers have identified how the brain’s default mode network (DMN) collaborates with other regions to produce creative thought. By using advanced brain imaging techniques, they tracked ...

Summary: A new study investigates the brain’s mechanisms behind deep focus. The research employs fMRI to explore low-frequency fluctuations in brain networks during focused and less-focused states.

Tools for promoting one’s sense of well-being can deliver a long lasting benefit if one continues to use them, according to a new study. Years after learning about such “science hacks” at the ...

People who have schizophrenia may hear voices or see things that aren’t real. But what happens inside the brain of someone who has schizophrenia? Scientists are working to understand that. They’ve ...

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When psychologist Jonathan Smallwood set out to study mind-wandering about 25 years ago, few of his peers thought that was a very good idea. How could one hope to investigate these spontaneous and ...