Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Mild brain stimulation helped adults with weaker brain connections improve math speed by 6 percent. Memory tasks didn’t ...

A new neuroimaging study has identified distinct structural brain differences in individuals with psychopathy, particularly ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered that a magnetic brain treatment already used for depression can boost the brain’s ...

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between different stimuli.

A midbrain structure responsible for eye movement has been discovered that also plays a key role in cognitive perception and ...

When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when ...

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like ...

Scientists have long known that hope aids behavior. Recent research shows that individual differences in spontaneous brain ...