Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new ...

In a paper published in Progress in Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neuroscientists described compelling new evidence of a critical neuroplasticity period in the frontal ...

have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex - brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. This mental shift ...

The right side of the brain helps people recognize themselves in a picture, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The study joins a growing body of evidence that ...

On Fridays and some Tuesdays, neurosurgeons in Kuopio place ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. During the procedure, they collect biopsies of skin, fat, muscle, right frontal cortex, intraventricular CSF.

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

In early February 2016, after reading an article featuring a couple of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were studying how the brain reacts to music, a woman felt inclined to ...