A new study suggests that the brain uses distinct neural pathways to process different aspects of personal well-being. The ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides a detailed look at how the psychedelic drug psilocybin facilitates the ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

These eras of brain architecture are marked by four major turning points, which occur around the ages of 9, 32, 66 and 83, ...

In a recent review published in the journal Current Biology, researchers examined the origins, mechanisms, and significance of interoception (the sensing and processing of internal bodily states) and ...

A new study has uncovered how the brain seamlessly transforms sounds, speech patterns, and words into the flow of everyday conversations. Using advanced technology to analyze over 100 hours of brain ...

What if we could peer into the brain and watch how it organizes information as we act, perceive, or make decisions? A new ...

Muscle memory isn't just about muscles; it's your brain and nervous system adapting to repeated movements, making them ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

That mental merry-go-round of “what ifs” and “should haves” isn’t just annoying. It’s actually rewiring your brain as you read this sentence. Overthinking – that relentless mental chewing on problems ...