The paraventricular thalamus helps the brain identify and track the most salient details of a situation, helping to enhance learning, a new study reveals.
Harsh noises, such as alarm bells and sirens, hold the brain's attention by stimulating its aversion networks.
Researchers report our visual attention pays most attention to parts of a scene that have meaning to us, not the parts that stick out.
Cannabidiol may buffer the effects of THC on the brain for those who use marijuana. Marijuana with a higher CBD content restores disruptions to the salience network caused by THC exposure.
Researchers turn to neuroscience to help explain why some people are more creative than others.
A new meta analysis study identifies dysfunction of neurocognitive networks across multiple psychiatric disorders.
Researchers have identified a potential brain based biomarker that could help identify TBI patients at risk for depression.
New research suggests the high relapse rate in smokers could be explained by diminished connectivity in key brain networks.
Obesity risk in teens appears to be associated with stronger connectivity within and between regions of the brain implicated in determining the salience of stimuli. This may have implications for reward processing. Researchers report executive control efforts in the brain decrease when salience and reward-processing regions are engaged in teens with obesity.
A new study reports the locus coerleus, a brain network that controls our ability to focus while under stress, appears to weaken as we age. This may explain why we find it more difficult to focus as we get older.
According to researchers, stories that force us to think about our deepest moral values activate a brain region once thought to be on autopilot.
A new study reports Alzheimer's disease does not appear to affect the salience network. Researchers found, when listening to music, the salience network along with other networks, show higher functional connectivity in Alzheimer's patients.
