Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

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 ...

Are you already feeling your New Year's motivation fading? It's not a lack of willpower; it's your brain's neurobiology playing a nasty trick on you.

Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

The greatest enemy of anyone below 25 is the prefrontal cortex. Indeed, it is the devil on your shoulder that whispers in your ear, telling you to smoke that weed the night before your economics ...

Study demonstrated that the Homer1 gene improves focus by reducing “noise” in the prefrontal cortex, with implications for studying attention disorders.

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 ...

Attention depends on the brain’s ability to filter out distractions, but new research suggests this works best when ...