Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of ...

Two major studies from Harvard and MIT uncover a surprising link between the immune system and the brain, revealing how ...

Researchers say study underscores how psychedelics may help dial down inflammation and reset brain-immune interactions.

A new study suggests that fear and the immune system are connected in previously unknown ways. Researchers found that the immune system can influence stress and fear behaviors by changing how brain ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

A new study reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten fear responses.

A new study published in Nature by researchers at Harvard Medical School has found that psychedelic compounds can reduce ...

Nature has developed a unique structure as a scaffold for almost all nerve cells: the membrane-associated periodic skeleton ...