The human brain is the most elegant information processing system, and benefits from “novel and complex” stimuli.

Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain's complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

A new study shows that even a moderate dose of caffeine alters brain activity during sleep, increasing complexity and nudging neural systems toward a high-efficiency processing state, especially in ...

I love Dr. Robert Sapolsky's work. He stated, "Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors-normal, abnormal and in between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes ...