We usually don't think much about it, but our brain is pretty amazing! This three-pound organ is in charge of everything—from our thoughts and memories to our emotions and decision-making. And yet, ...

Ah dopamine, our favorite among favorites of brain chemicals. To you we attribute so much, and yet about you we understand so little. Hence my appreciation of this brief, accessible book chosen to ...

We’ll begin the second part of this list with what I’m going to call the ultimate neuroscience of sleep book – and I say that as someone who’s read a few. What separates this book from many others is ...

For a primer on consciousness and the brain, click here. When students first learn about Pavlov's dogs—dogs that learned to salivate to the sound of a bell (the "conditioned stimulus") when the bell ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...