An influential hypothesis in neuroscience is that the brain may operate near criticality, a transition zone between ...

Birdwatching isn’t just a pleasant hobby. New research suggests it sharpens attention, boosts resilience, and could even ...

New research suggests that psilocybin shifts the brain from a relaxed state into a highly engaged pattern of rapid electrical ...

People who are stressed out have a harder time orienting themselves. A new study used neuroimaging to reveal why this happens ...

We have long been told a simple story about reward: Dopamine is the "wanting" molecule that drives us toward goals, and ...

RResearchers have identified a direct link between worsening financial conditions and accelerated memory loss.

Scientists may have sniffed out a breakthrough when detecting Alzheimer’s. The degenerative disease, which affects millions ...

A mouse study highlights the role of acetylcholine in behavioral flexibility, offering new insight into the brain mechanisms involved in addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating ...

A team of researchers in Germany has restored electrical activity in mouse brain tissue after storing it in a glass-like ...

AI has all but overtaken the thinking universe. Training an early version of ChatGPT consumes about 1300 megawatt-hours of ...

An international research team from Bielefeld University and the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP ...