Summary: A new study highlights how the brain learns to keep alcohol addiction going, not for pleasure but to escape withdrawal stress. Researchers found that a midline brain region, the PVT, became ...

This style of online content, which often consists of vaguely Italian-sounding gibberish, didn’t go viral in a vacuum. View ...

Experts say graphic images, nonstop outrage, and the 24/7 negative news cycle don’t just upset us—they alter our stress response and harm mental health. The amygdala, shown in orange, serves as the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player who now serves as an ambassador for the league, is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, his family said Thursday. Collins announced ...

hrive Capital’s Josh Kushner has emerged as one of the most active investors in artificial intelligence, making billion-dollar bets on startups like OpenAI, Databricks and Anduril. Now his brother, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook ’90s kids, this one’s for you. The Animaniacs are getting their first wave of Funko Pops since ...

Metformin, long trusted for diabetes, turns out to work in the brain too. By shutting down Rap1 in the hypothalamus, the drug lowers blood sugar more effectively than previously understood, opening ...

Examining a brain at the Neuropathology Brain Bank at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. By Jonathan Corum Photographs by Shuran Huang In July, a gunman in Midtown Manhattan left a note that ...

Creatine is one of the most well-researched supplements in sports nutrition, but it’s often thought of as something mainly for men, particularly those focused on building strength, muscle, or athletic ...

Scientists at Stanford have found that hyperactivity in the brain’s reticular thalamic nucleus may drive autism-like behaviors. In mouse models, drugs and neuromodulation techniques that suppressed ...

Summary: A new study shows that observing violence can make individuals more likely to act aggressively later, but the effect depends on familiarity. Male mice who watched familiar peers attack others ...