For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

ME. AT MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

A team at the University of California, San Francisco has identified a specific liver-produced enzyme that explains, at the molecular level, how physical exercise protects the aging brain from ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, USA – July 8, 2025 – Genomic Press today published in Genomic Psychiatry an in-depth interview with Dr. Xuyu Qian, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

A preclinical study published in Biological Psychiatry has found that repeated low doses of psilocybin and MDMA reshape ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Alcohol may appear to soothe nerves and smooth social edges, but beneath that relaxed buzz the brain is adjusting its wiring. Slowly, alcohol interferes with the chemical signals that allow nerve ...

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...