Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

Does anesthesia put you to sleep? A long review of what really happens in anesthesia, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, points out something cognitive scientists have known ...

The brain is a physical organ—that much is clear to everyone. But how do we understand the mind and consciousness—what is it and how did it evolve? Source: Thinkstock Do you think of yourself as ...