A new study published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease has found that an overabundance of inhibitory connections in a ...

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...

When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated tools, or when a child invents the rules of a new game, what happens in the ...

A circuit that runs from the prefrontal cortex near the front of the brain to a deeper brain structure called the insular ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...

London: Researchers have long said that the human brain is not set up to multitask — but new research is challenging that understanding.Experts previously explained that when we believe we’re ...