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As sure as the brain is prone to distraction, it can also return its focus to the task at hand. A new study in animals by scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory of MIT shows how that seems to happen: ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—most often found in athletes playing contact sports—is known to share similarities with Alzheimer's disease (AD), namely the buildup of a protein called tau in the brain.

Climate change is reshaping weather patterns around the world, with monsoons, droughts, hurricanes and heat waves all occurring with greater frequency and intensity. Aside from disturbing ecosystems, these environmental shifts ...

In an article published in Brain Medicine, a European research team presents a focused review of emerging neuromodulation techniques for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

How do mammals manage to eat in situations that cause anxiety, step into exposed spaces, or slow down when anxiety drives them to keep moving? A new study pinpoints a leptin-sensitive circuit in the lateral hypothalamus that ...

It's exam season in Australia. Year 12 students are sitting final exams, while university and younger school students also face end-of-year assessments.

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning falters, thoughts and behavior ...

Wiring up the brain's trillions of circuit connections is an enormous job performed by a huge crew of molecules. Among the less understood members are circular RNAs, transcripts from DNA that assume a closed loop shape. A ...

Two new research papers from the Living Brain Project at Mount Sinai present what is, by several metrics, the largest investigation ever performed of the biology of the living human brain. The papers present unequivocal evidence ...

Researchers led by Dr. Roberto Goya-Maldonado at the University Medical Center Göttingen have identified a rapid physiological marker that predicts which patients with major depression will respond to magnetic brain stimulation ...

A peer-reviewed viewpoint article published in Psychedelics by Prof. Xiaohui Wang and colleagues examines the therapeutic potential of psychedelic substances for treating stress-related psychiatric disorders through novel ...

Around 70% of women who suffer a sexual assault develop PTSD. Now, scientists have shown that many of these women show a marked reduction in the usual communication between two important brain areas involved in processing ...