A new study suggests that four psychoactive compounds work in surprisingly similar ways, and that they break down the ...

Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal have, for the first time, ...

Decades of research have shown that, to make decisions, our brains gradually gather evidence for each option over time.

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts learning.

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...

As more states legalize recreational marijuana use, here’s what the research says about what cannabis is really doing to your ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

The result supports earlier studies that used brain imaging to find evidence that the same neural circuits are involved in ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...

A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.