Researchers used lasers to record and stimulate the activity of neurons in mice in order to learn how the brain processes and interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute) Jo Kavaliauskas once saw ...

Cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") in red. Source: Life Sciences Database/Wikimedia Commons Your cerebellum may be part of a reality-check system that plays a central anti-hallucination role in the ...

Neuroscience shows that the world you experience is a construct created by the brain from fragments of sensory input turning life itself into an invented hallucination. Trump pardons 5 former NFL ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are prone to hallucinations are likely to have structural differences in a key region of the brain compared to both healthy individuals and people diagnosed ...

Jo Kavaliauskas once saw human bodies hanging from a meat hook, an image so real they could escape it only by shutting their eyes and going to sleep on the couch. Aliens and demons sometimes appear ...