Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Sleep-wake rhythms in normal adults usually have a periodicity of 24 hours, while 48-hour sleep-wake cycles have been ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of ...

Researchers use biocompatible polydopamine nanoparticles and near-infrared light to remotely trigger activity in neuron and ...

Most people associate laughing gas with dentists’ offices, where it’s used to ease anxiety and dull pain. While its nickname hints at euphoric effects, it acts as a sedative at the low doses used for ...

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help ...

Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer whose compositions were arguably as much science experiments as they were music. The piece he is best known for, I Am Sitting in a Room, explored ...

Dopamine maintains hope and motivation for life. Inflammation-associated compounds disrupt dopamine release, causing apathy.

Think your willpower is to blame for that second bag of chips? Think again. Scientists have uncovered a hidden brain ...