Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand—a breakthrough that’s rewriting how we see the ...

Stretching your ability to focus is good for the brain. Paying close attention like that encourages the brain to pump more acetylcholine (a brain chemical important for learning, attention, and memory ...

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - ...

An international group of neuroscientists joined forces to produce a landmark neural map, which revealed that decision-making ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter — a chemical made in your brain. It carries messages to your nerve cells. Dopamine is also a hormone made in your adrenal glands that gets released into your bloodstream ...

All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions. To supply the energy these tasks require while conserving this ...

Whoever first said the brain is like a muscle was closer to the truth than they probably knew. Spend an hour wrestling with a crossword puzzle, tackling a Sudoku grid, or calculating the area under a ...

Timothy Ryan, PhD, runs a lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, where the team focuses on studying synapses and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Like most teams, they kick around lots of ...

Inflammation is a natural bodily process – but when it becomes chronic, it’s strongly linked with disease. Increasing ...

CUNY Graduate Center Professor Leora Yetnikoff receives $1 million from the National Science Foundation to explore the links ...

Getting older is inevitable — but illness doesn’t have to be. Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool that can measure how fast a person is aging and predict their future risk of chronic ...