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In the future, psychedelics may be used to treat addictions because they can shake up the brain. Along with therapy, ...

In the field of neuropharmacology, the search for the next medical breakthrough often feels like a high-stakes gamble. For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has struggled ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it's a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what you look like: the pigments of your eyes, of your skin, and the bone ...

A new study published in PNAS Nexus has found that specific patterns of brain activity can predict the success of persuasive ...

A new study has demonstrated how networks of spiking nanolasers could emulate a key principle of brain function: to imagine ...

That knot in the stomach before a big presentation isn't just anxiety—it's a sophisticated neural network firing signals ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...

It's not anxiety keeping you awake. It's your brain running a biological program that most people completely misunderstand.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their study found that chronic compression triggers neuron death by a variety of mechanisms, both directly and indirectly. The ...