This year, our scientists offered new hope for treating neurodegeneration and obesity and dramatically improved the odds that ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Scientists have created the first reference brain for the clonal raider ant. They used the tool to make unexpected discoveries, including variation among the individual ant brains that may relate to ...

In recent years, the psychedelic compound psilocybin found in magic mushrooms has been widely tested for its antidepressant ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum - an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

By combining psilocybin with a modified rabies virus that tracks neural connections, they mapped how networks change after a single dose. Earlier research from the same laboratory showed that ...

Disco collided with Punjabi weddings in 1982 when West London vocalist Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded Punjabi D ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory rather than the cells and circuits that go wrong. Now a new wave of brain ...

In Nature Communications, a research team affiliated with UNIST present a fully biodegradable, robust, and energy-efficient ...

New research from Colorado State University into the ways neurons regulate chemical balance in the brain could provide ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication ...