A PET imaging study reveals how ketamine changes receptor density across specific brain regions, offering the first clear map of why the drug works so fast.
A new study found that 65% of daily behaviors are habitual and 88% are executed without conscious thought. The science of why your brain prefers shortcuts, and what that means for change.
When you fall in love, 12 brain regions conspire to flood your system with dopamine, hijacking the same neural circuits as addiction. Here's what's really happening.
From zombie ants to fearless rats, parasites have evolved astonishingly precise methods of neural hijacking that challenge our understanding of free will and behavior.
Forgetting isn't a failure of memory. It's a deliberate neural process, powered by dopamine and fine-tuned by evolution, that keeps your brain functional.
New research reveals that slow-wave sleep doesn't just consolidate memories. It shifts where your brain processes them entirely.
Honeybees have mental number lines, can add and subtract, and understand zero. Their tiny brains are rewriting what we thought cognition required.
New research reveals the Romans breathed lead-laced air for centuries, potentially poisoning their minds and hastening the empire's collapse.
Longitudinal research reveals a surprising connection: babies who look longest at new things grow up to score higher on IQ tests years later.
New research reveals that a common cavity-causing bacterium may travel from your mouth to your gut, producing compounds that damage the neurons involved in Parkinson's disease.
Crows recognize individual human faces and remember who threatened them for years. Their intelligence reveals something unexpected about how minds evolve.
The brain does not passively record the world. It actively constructs reality from expectations and guesses, and understanding this changes everything.