Working memory system disruptions can cause smokers who quit to relapse within days, a neuroimaging study finds.
A lapse in function in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is partly responsible for people caving into their high calorie cravings, a new study reports.
A new study reports the average person is usually adverse to lying.
People are less concerned about inequity to others and more heavily influenced by self interest, a new study reports.
Using neuroimaging technology, researchers note increased activity in areas of the brain associated with empathy in subjects who underwent compassion training.
If only there were a way to forget that humiliating faux pas at last night's dinner party. It turns out there's not one, but two opposite ways in which the brain allows us to voluntarily forget unwanted memories, according to research.
Studies of lucid dreamers visualise which centers of the brain become active when we become aware of ourselves. Studies demonstrate that a specific cortical network consisting of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the frontopolar regions and the precuneus is activated when this lucid consciousness is attained.
MRI images show what the brain looks like when you do something you know you shouldn’t. New pictures from the...
