A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

A new study addresses the question of whether psychedelics might change the attribution of consciousness to a range of living and nonliving things. Psychedelic drugs, like psilocybin, an ingredient ...

Our species has long agonized over the concept of human consciousness. What exactly causes it, and why did we evolve to experience consciousness? Now, a new study has uncovered a clue in the hunt for ...

Even small epileptic seizures can trigger widespread abnormal signals in brain networks leading to loss of consciousness, according to new findings by a Yale researcher. New Haven, Conn. -- Even small ...

COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise. Medical teams at six research ...

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated the study was published in Brain Simulation. In fact, it was published in Brain Stimulation. This post was updated Feb. 16 at 6:06 p ...

Can we ever truly understand the experiences of animals? Many philosophers and scientists harbor skepticism, often asserting that we can never truly comprehend what goes on in an animal’s mind. For ...