Neuroscience research shows that Sudoku isn’t just a fun pastime—it actively engages brain regions tied to memory, focus, and problem-solving. Studies reveal it can stimulate the prefrontal cortex, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month directing the FDA to accelerate access to psychedelics ...

When your child with ADHD argues back, you might find yourself getting stuck in a frustration-fuelled cycle that goes from ...

An MIT-led team built a biologically detailed AI model of the prefrontal cortex–striatum circuit that not only matched macaque learning behavior but predicted a previously unnoticed class of neurons ...

A single dose of psilocybin can trigger functional and anatomical brain changes that can be detected weeks after intake.

Overstimulation is a physiological response to processing too much information. Here's how to deal with it, per experts.

Research in rats shows that those who help have higher levels of oxytocin receptors (for the “love” hormone oxytocin) and ...

In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

A new study says a psychedelic trip may physically change your brain and could explain why some people note benefits from the ...

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

Here, we report that glycolysis controls astrocyte-synapse contact. In the Drosophila larval dopaminergic (DAergic) circuit, blocking astrocyte glycolysis stimulated perisynaptic ensheathment by ...