Ketamine Separates Pain Relief from Altered Consciousness, Brain Imaging Study Finds
A Tel Aviv University imaging study of 37 volunteers shows that ketamine relieves pain through brain mechanisms separate from those ...
Tag: consciousness
Consciousness May Begin in Single Cells: New Theory Traces Awareness to Cellular Memory
A new theoretical framework proposes that consciousness emerges from temporal integration windows operating from cellular memory up to cortical experience, ...
Evolution May Push Complexity and Consciousness Upward, Review Argues
A new review argues that evolution contains several mechanisms that tend to increase complexity and that basic consciousness follows the ...
Are Giant Brain Cells Antennas? A Bold New Hypothesis on Consciousness
A new hypothesis proposes that von Economo neurons in the fronto-insular and anterior cingulate cortices act as biological dipole antennas ...
Ten Years On, Neuroscientists Say the Brain Still Resists Reductionism
The decade that has passed since the original position paper offers a useful vantage point for assessing not only what ...
Serotonin Pulls Hidden Levers in the Brain’s Most Connected Structure
New patch-clamp research in rats reveals that serotonin bidirectionally controls claustrum neuron excitability via 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptors while presynaptic ...
Your Heartbeat May Set the Gain on Consciousness, New Theory Proposes
A new theoretical framework proposes that heart rate variability-indexed autonomic coherence acts as a gain parameter governing the nested temporal ...
Borrowing From Quantum Math, a New Framework Describes the Brain’s Evolving States
A new computational neuroscience study proposes representing evolving brain dynamics with wave-function formalism, showing that EEG signals change in coordinated ...
How Science Is Learning to Read, Classify and Steer Our Dreams
A new Frontiers in Sleep research topic shows how stroke lesion studies, AI-based dream report analysis and targeted dream incubation ...
Deep breathing reshapes brain networks to trigger psychedelic-like states
A new brain-imaging study presented at the ECNP Congress shows that intensive breathwork reduces cerebral blood flow by up to ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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