Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception. The brain is constantly ...

When we consider the dizzying high of a sugar rush and the crushing low of a sugar crash, or the irritability and anger that comes with being “hangry”, it’s hard to imagine that the food we consume is ...

New research published in BMJ Mental Health sheds light on the relationship between lifetime cannabis use and brain health in ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

In a remarkable leap for neuroscience, lab-grown mini-brains, or brain organoids, have demonstrated the ability to solve math ...