A new study has identified a specific brain circuit that can push behavior into a compulsive “repeat mode,” forcing mice to ...

Seattle's Allen Institute has released the Brain Knowledge Platform, a research aid described as the most comprehensive AI ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Like fingerprints, human brains are unique. Scientists are working to map the variability of individual brains and to inform personalized therapeutics for treatment-resistant disease. These findings ...

New applications of AI and machine learning techniques were presented at Neuroscience 2025, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest source of emerging news about ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

We often fail at the simplest tasks. It’s not stupidity, it’s because your brain is ancient, but your behavior is not.

Neuroscience shows that our brains aren't wired to sustain high-intensity work over long periods of time. Many leaders describe feeling like they are caught in a whirlwind of constant doing—without a ...

Alternate states of consciousness and inner peace can emerge in flotation therapy with reduced environmental stimulation.

A new study investigating neuroinflammation in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain, a small, midbrain dopaminergic ...

A possible workaround came from a team led by Ernie Blevins of the University of Washington. They gave obese rats a low dose ...