A new study suggests that four psychoactive compounds work in surprisingly similar ways, and that they break down the ...

A study suggests that a blood test measuring the biomarker pTau217 can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease years before ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

Near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, offers a way to monitor brain activity without surgery or radiation by tracking changes in blood flow and oxygenation. Light sources placed on the scalp send near ...

All of this motion has subtle but dramatic effects on the sleeping brain that the researchers are only beginning to ...

After a stroke, the brain may do something surprisingly hopeful—it can “refresh” parts of itself. Researchers analyzing brain scans from over 500 stroke survivors found that while the damaged side of ...

Someone cuts you off in conversation, dismisses your feelings, or takes credit for your work. You can see they registered the ...

Where people live - and the air they breathe, green space they can access, and social and political conditions they ...

When you accumulate extreme wealth and power, your brain quietly retunes its radar to ignore other people, science shows.

In a new study published in The Lancet Digital Health, scientists at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) have discovered that the brains of people who ...

What is the brain exposome? A new 34-country study shows how environmental and social factors like air pollution and poverty ...