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 ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

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.

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

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

Scientists discerned that a person’s neural and behavioral outcomes shifted when simply vividly imagining a positive experience.

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

With the most wonderful — and for some, the most stressful — time of year underway, a University of Iowa researcher is ...