Through the lifespan, clinical evidence has shown high comorbidity of vestibular dysfunction and psychiatric symptoms. Vestibular lesions have been related to cognitive difficulties, particularly in ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research reveals that men who have committed sexually sadistic crimes ...

It appears that last month's installment, where I mentioned the lady that displayed a number of signs of Alzheimer’s in a commercial, prompted a few questions. Specifically, what are the ...

The European Stroke Organization calls for systematic screening within days of stroke to detect visual deficits that affect ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Anatomically, the caudal principal sulcus (located in area 46) and prearcuate regions (located in area 8A) of the dorsolateral PFC receive corticocortical projections from caudal auditory belt areas ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

NYU Langone neuroscientists identified the brain region likely responsible for recognizing images after seeing them once, ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

Mental shortcuts used to interpret helping situations can cause well-meaning sighted people to assume they know more about the capabilities of blind people than they actually do.