Neuroscience

Neuroscience

The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
The "love hormone" might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
quantum entanglement
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.
A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
Abstract image of a person sitting alone in a tiny space to represent PTSD.
Antidepressants can help alleviate PTSD symptoms when paired with psychotherapy, but does our overenthusiasm for them blind us to more effective alternatives?
meditation
Meditators invert the relationship between the layers of self-processing.
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
brain zapping
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.