Seven participants had electrodes temporarily implanted in a brain structure important for learning. While anesthetized, ...

It’s the end of January. How many of us made New Year’s resolutions this year, but have already broken them? Maybe we told ourselves we’ll exercise more, or spend more time with our children, or not ...

For Aristotle (384-322 BCE), all living things had a vegetative or nutritive soul; animals also had a sensitive soul; and humans, on top of that, had a rational soul. As a result, medieval theologians ...

Sigmund Freud postulated that for psychoanalysis to be effective, the client must share with the analyst all that crosses their mind during the course of the clinical hour. Whether their thoughts are ...

Unconscious bias is an issue in organizations. As we think about how many facets of making decisions in an organization that could be impacted -- such as recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, succession ...

Promoting awareness of unconscious bias enhances decision-making, fairness, and collaboration, reduces conflict, and fosters a respectful, inclusive work environment. The Fast Company Executive Board ...

It's a question that has baffled scientists for centuries – what happens in the seconds before you die? Now, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine have taken a huge step closer to solving the ...

The human brain is the only reason our species has survived on this planet for so long, but even it has a blind spot. When it’s unconscious — whether because of sleep, anesthesia, or a coma — we’re ...

A patient under general anesthesia may appear completely disconnected from the outside world. But inside the brain, neurons could still be "listening" to stories, sorting words into categories, and ...

For decades, racial and gender-based bias has been dismissed as 'unconscious,' as something accidental and out of our control. Alternatively, conscious bias is framed as hateful and performed ...