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

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Researchers find that altered Homer1 gene signaling quiets brain activity and improves attention in mice, raising new ...

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

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

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

A study shows that lowering activity of specific Homer1 gene variants reduces background neural noise and improves attention ...

For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...

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

Whether the brain responds to an external stimulus or not depends significantly on the balance between areas of excitation and inhibition in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Synaptic connections in the ...