New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

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The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

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Researchers have captured for the first time and in exquisite detail pictures of NMDA receptors in a fully open conformation.

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For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought ...