The study is a solid step toward developing gene therapies against neurodevelopmental disorders.

Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.

After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.

Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.

Combining years of neurological research and mindfulness techniques, Dr. Heather Berlin helps us better understand how the body’s most complex organ can easily be misled into negative thinking - and how we can stop that from happening.

While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.

Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.

Lucid dreamers may have “privileged access to their inner world,” with “heightened awareness... to the outside world.”

Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.

What a long strange trip it's been.

What hallucinogens will make you see.

Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.

A healthy lifestyle even protects those who are genetically predisposed to depression.

This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.

The benefits of the psychedelic seem to last long after the trip wears off.

The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?

Neural imaging has shown that the brain has “decided” what we’re going to do before we make a conscious choice — but is this even relevant to free will?

According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.

Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

Goalkeepers have an enhanced ability to integrate auditory and visual information compared to other players.

If the "self" is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.

The flavor is "simultaneously fascinating and... abusive."

Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.