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The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a ...

A new study published in Brain Communications has uncovered abnormal brain wave activity in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting a potential new biomarker for tracking the condition and ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

The brain is divided into two hemispheres (halves), the left and right side. Each lobe has a left and right side. Each lobe does different things, but they work closely together. The sub-cortex is any ...

Each hemisphere is further divided into four lobes based on their location. Your cerebral cortex controls several vital functions through these lobes. Frontal lobes. These are the largest lobes of ...

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 say ...

The cerebellum is a fist-size portion of the brain located at the back of the head, below the temporal and occipital lobes and above the brainstem. It also has two hemispheres, and the outer ...

Your cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is divided into four lobes. The occipital lobe is the smallest lobe of your brain. It makes up around 12% of the surface area ...

Because of the symmetry of the temporal lobe — both hemispheres of the brain have an amygdala and hippocampus — people who have these surgeries usually have minimal side effects, according to the ...

The parieto-occipital sulcus divides these two lobes. Like the brain itself, the parietal lobe is divided into two hemispheres by the central furrow, or medial longitudinal fissure. The parietal ...