Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At ...

A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness—a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more. Humans ...

Deep ecology is based on a worldview of deep interconnection of all beings. Deep ecology views humans as part of the web of life. Web of Life In this view, humans may be thought of as the ...

Neuropsychology researchers at LMU have discovered a rhythm in the midbrain that could serve as a biophysiological signature for specific states of consciousness. The thalamus is a deep-lying ...

How consciousness emerges in the brain is the ultimate mystery. Scientists generally agree that consciousness relies on multiple brain regions working in tandem. But the areas and neural connections ...

Neuroscientist Christof Koch, president and chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, talks about the roots of consciousness at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. (Photo by Dan DeLong ...

There are ways to temper your toughest critic and take constructive control of your feelings. Since the consciousness revolution of the 1960s and the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s, many ...

The inmost region, the subcortex, holds more foundational responsibilities than the upstart upstairs: maintaining arousal, processing emotions, regulating the body and relaying sensory information.