Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Low doses of the psychedelic drug LSD increase complexity in the brain, even when they don’t alter a person’s consciousness. The finding challenges the idea that these two phenomena are correlated and ...

A study by the team of Prof. Kristel Sleegers (VIB-UAntwerp), published in Acta Neuropathologica, has offered new insights into the genetic factors that drive Alzheimer's disease. Using samples from ...

The human brain and body are intricate systems that have been fine-tuned over millions of years to prioritize survival. One of the ways they achieve this is by favoring the status quo, or what is ...

Can we map the brain to show its behavior patterns when a patient is healthy and sick? This is what a recent study published in Nature Methods hopes to address as a team of researchers at the ...

When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called "criticality," this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning smoothly ...

At the core of our resistance to change is a cognitive bias known as the status quo bias. This bias is a preference for the current state of affairs. The more familiar we are with a situation, the ...