In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the precise organization of neuronal connections. In an article published in ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

A study published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine shows that cannabidol (CBD) delivered via nanoemulsions may help ...

Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

A second trial of a clot evacuation approach to remove a hematoma in spontaneous ICH has shown some encouraging results, despite a neutral primary endpoint.

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore ...

For years, serotonin has been linked to anxiety, but new research flips the script—higher serotonin in the cerebellum might ...