It suggests your subjective experience might come from both your physical brain and the mysterious quantum activity within it ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

A new study explores out-of-body experiences and challenges what we know about consciousness. Could your mind exist beyond your brain? Scientists weigh in.

A new study connects the brain's interaction with metals to the phenomenon of consciousness.

Where is your consciousness? Can you describe its location? For the sake of the experiment, let’s define consciousness simply, as an awareness of oneself in the world. A lot of writers explore ...

To the researchers’ surprise, the patient temporarily lost consciousness when they stimulated an area of the brain called the claustrum, located just below the cortex (the outer layer of the brain).

Scientists are uncovering a rare state of “objectless sleep,” where people report being aware of nothing at all. New research investigates this.

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Breathwork while listening to music may induce a blissful state in practitioners, accompanied by changes in blood flow to ...

This experience of “covert consciousness” is a reality for many people who have sustained traumatic brain injuries. In a new ...

For most scientists, consciousness and the brain are inextricably linked—and for good reason. The brain is the synaptic center where our biological selves make sense of the world around us.

One highly controversial theory suggests that consciousness may exist outside the brain, and out-of-body experience could be the key to exploring that theory.