The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled ...

The lateral habenula is a brain region associated with behavioral changes and autonomic responses during psychological stress. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified the involvement ...

Shutterstock / urfin Anxiety medication currently on the market, such as Xanax, affects many areas of the brain that control different behaviors, but the drugs Han hopes to see in the future would ...

Twelve exercises to help you see possibilities that others miss. When most people prompt generative AI, they do so within the paradigm of how they think about what could or should come next. For ...

The baby is being treated at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. His doctor has diagnosed him with a traumatic brain injury and extensive bruising, the criminal complaint said. "The brain ...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their ...

For years, scientists have been focused on trying to come up with new treatments for Alzheimer's by preventing the formation of brain-damaging clumps of this mysterious protein called beta-amyloid. In ...

Reasoning about someone’s thoughts and intentions—i.e., forming a “theory of mind”—is a core aspect of social cognition and relies on association areas of the brain that have expanded ...

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have identified a shared mechanism in the brain that explains how different drugs, such as methamphetamine and PCP (commonly known as “angel ...

When neurons—cells that send and receive signals in your brain—become more active, they require more oxygen. Blood flows to the active areas to meet this demand, and the fMRI detects where ...