The same brain system that rewards you for a delicious meal is hijacked by drugs like fentanyl. A behavioral neuroscientist ...

Despite its reputation as a safer chemical, PFHxA—a short-chain PFAS—may cause long-term behavioral changes when exposure ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

New research has uncovered how the brain dynamically adjusts its neural activity to prioritize more important information in working memory. The study, published in Science Advances, found that when ...

The research revealed widespread disruptions in the activity of genes responsible for early embryonic genome activation, metabolic processes, epigenetic regulation, and chromatin structure in embryos ...

New research proposes a unified theory of brain function based on criticality—a state where the brain teeters between order ...

Could your patterns of thinking be early signs of anxiety and depression? A recent study uncovers clues for early detection ...

Studies show that people with these disorders often have unusual stress hormone patterns, like blunted or exaggerated ...

Misplaced car keys, forgotten names and other lapses in memory are a normal part of life, especially as you age. However, ...

In our book Demystifying Psychiatry, we define psychiatry as “the medical specialty that deals with disorders affecting the ...

This article surveys the recent development of semiconductor memory technologies spanning from the mainstream static random-access memory, dynamic random-access memory, and flash memory toward ...

Trauma Services reports hoarding disorder is rising, driven by trauma and stress, especially since the pandemic, requiring ...