Research shows the brain during prayer activates social cognition networks, reduces stress, and builds measurable neural ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

We tend to think of prayer as a purely spiritual act, but what if I told you it also affects your brain on a biological level? Science is finally catching up to what mystics have known for centuries: ...