Unusually Wired: Human Brains are Attuned to Appreciate Musical Pitch

Those who had developed PTSD appear to be less able to suppress unwanted memories—traumatic or not—suggesting a role for the general ability to control memory recall in the disorder.

Imaging reveals how cyclical patterns of brain activity differ between conscious and unresponsive individuals.

A small study finds that patients who had half their brains removed to treat epilepsy have stronger neural networks than controls, perhaps explaining how they can retain language and cognition skills.

During deep sleep, rhythmic pulses of cerebrospinal fluid are coupled with slow waves of electrical activity and fluctuating blood levels in the human brain.

The auditory cortices of humans and rhesus monkeys respond very differently to harmonic tones.

The original experiment found brain activity as measured by fMRI was tied to particular genetic variants.

Imaging of the human brain reveals constellations of activity associated with conscious and unconscious states.

The EEG-based method could help clinicians identify patients with severe brain injuries who are actually capable of some cognitive function, despite appearing unresponsive.