A study published by scientists at the University of California San Diego is redefining science's understanding of the way ...

Sydney, Apr 25 (UNI) A new study by Australian and European neuroscientists and philosophers revealed what happens in the brain when minds go blank, a common yet poorly understood mental state. The ...

“We argue that this family of ‘blank minds’ could perhaps share some mechanisms, and that one type may shed light on the others,” she says. The researchers used two different imaging techniques that ...

Interestingly, individuals with ADHD report more frequent mind blanks than neurotypical people. The research team combined brain imaging techniques like fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) ...

During the blank, they observed disruptions in sensory processing and slow, sleep-like EEG waves. The authors describe these states in which parts of a person's brain appear asleep as "local sleep ...

Meaning that, “when the brain is in a high- or low-arousal state, a mind blank is more likely to occur.” In experiments with healthy volunteers, the brain shows signs of “deactivation” and ...

But other cases were quite the opposite. In some people, a sudden spike in neural activity in the brain’s posterior regions preceded a blank. The authors believe that high-speed thinking might ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information ... Neuroscientists have produced the largest ...

This monumental effort represents the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammal brain ever, and it holds important implications for studying brain disorders in humans. “It definitely inspires a ...