From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a ...

From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a matter of life or death.

Scientists have uncovered a biological “blueprint” that shows how the brain’s smallest building blocks create the large networks that drive thought, emotion, and behavior.

For decades, neuroscientists focused almost exclusively on only half of the cells in the brain. Neurons were the main players, they thought, and everything else was made up of uninteresting support ...

Researchers in Okinawa set out to discover the neural basis of how we switch our behavior when situations change.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used powerful new brain imaging techniques to reveal a neurochemical imbalance within specific brain areas in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder ...

Investigators discovered that unique bacteria colonize the gut shortly after birth and make the neurotransmitter serotonin to educate gut immune cells. This prevents allergic reactions to food and the ...

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help nerve cells (neurons) communicate with one another. These chemical messengers affect the brain by either exciting (stimulating), inhibiting ...