Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Adults exhibit a general tendency to make better decisions than adolescents, and this improvement drives an increase in specific and more sophisticated choice behaviors, according to a new study.

Researchers led by the University of California, Irvine are the first to reveal how two neural circuits located in the ...

A new study sheds light on why some people are more tolerant of physical activity. Here, the lead researchers share three ...

Monitoring with a tracker can also allow you to see the work you’re putting in, which improves mindset around fitness and, ...

A healthy brain balances "activate" and "inhibit" signaling in its neural microcircuitry, with the inhibitory signaling often provided by cell ...

A new high-resolution neural recording method developed by Johns Hopkins APL and the School of Medicine detects neural ...

New research suggests that it could be possible to separate treatment from hallucinations when developing new drugs based on ...

The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry were seen as a sweep for artificial intelligence (AI) tools which, at their ...

New research has identified distinct neural circuits for the anti-anxiety and hallucinogenic effects of psychedelics.

How does the brain’s memory function change as we grow older? What recent discoveries are helping us understand these changes ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have made a fundamental discovery: the NMDA receptor (NMDAR)—long studied primarily for ...