A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain develops while they're awake.

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body's skin to the ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

Scientists have identified a neural mechanism in the brain that may explain why people postpone unpleasant or stressful tasks ...

Over 12 years, researchers mapped all of a larval fruit fly's brain, charting 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections. It's big news for neuroscience. Reading time 7 minutes To most humans, a fruit fly ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides a detailed look at how the psychedelic drug psilocybin facilitates the unlearning of fear in the brain. The research reveals that the drug does ...

The field of nutrition and gut microbiome research has increasingly identified the pivotal role of diet in shaping microbial ...