When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Binge drinking may be governed by just 500 neurons in one part of the brain — at least in rodents ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have made promising advances in understanding how to reduce anxiety through specific brain circuitry, potentially leading to more effective treatments without the ...

Brain learns and evolves. Fear is an instinct, but it learns to not be scared of everything over time. Study shows a brain region that acts as the off-switch. Anxiety and PTSD are challenging mental ...

Some of the most important advances in neuroscience have been made thanks to a pair of gruesome cases a century apart that left their victims alive, coherent and missing big portions of their brains.

Brain preserved in formaldehyde. — Gaetan Lee (CC BY 2.0) Brain preserved in formaldehyde. — Gaetan Lee (CC BY 2.0) Scientists have discovered a brain “pain switch” that prioritises survival needs ...

In an age where productivity and mental clarity are paramount, the demand for cognitive enhancement products has surged. Among these innovative solutions is Genius Switch, a supplement designed to ...

The study on how heroin addiction develops in the brain involved lab rats, but the lead researcher said there is most likely a common molecular system within the mammalian brain in general that forms ...

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 ...