Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

A team led by the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel ...

Could Training Your Brain Before Surgery Replace Painkillers? Mouse Study Says Maybe In A Nutshell Researchers identified the ...

The brain does not only cooperate; it also competes. So determines an international study by the University of Oxford, the ...

A new technique tags neurons with RNA barcodes to identify synaptic connections through sequencing. It allows rapid mapping ...

A hormone that can reverse obesity in mice is offering new clues about how the brain controls body weight. Researchers at the ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown brain circuit that appears to drive chronic pain, separate from the pathways ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of reality. The mutation disrupts a brain circuit involved in flexible ...

Conducted by researchers from Stanford University, the study used genetically engineered mouse models to map how pain signals ...

A Harvard study using surgical brain disruptions finds causal evidence for a neural circuit underlying the experience of ...

How does the placebo effect work? A new study identifies the vlPAG brain region and endogenous opioid signaling as the keys to expectancy-driven pain relief.

Panic disorder is a debilitating condition characterized by sudden and overwhelming bouts of intense fear, often accompanied by physical symptoms such as heart palpitations, hyperventilation, and ...