Recent studies highlight the brain's default mode network (DMN) as a key player in overthinking, or rumination, which traps ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Whenever you’re actively performing a task—say, lifting weights at the gym or taking a hard exam—the parts of your brain required to ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a distributed set of interconnected brain regions that has long been associated with internally oriented cognition, such as remembering the past, thinking about the ...

Recent advancements in neuroscience have unveiled new insights into the neural processes responsible for self-referential cognition. This research has brought particular attention to a critical neural ...

There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.

As you read this, in the background—or perhaps the foreground—is the wandering mind. This basal activity may be best represented in current neuroscience by the Default Mode Network (DMN). The DMN is ...

Smoking was not associated with functional network connectivity alterations in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis over a follow-up period of 8 months.