The findings, published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, could change how we evaluate drug safety — and explain why some medications cause unexpected neurological side effects that animal ...

The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a ...

can help determine which side of the brain — left or right — is stronger. Though they may look the same, each side of the brain processes information differently — both of which works ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears to reduce anxiety without side effects. Their work suggests a new ...

Advanced brain circuit-mapping technique reveals new anxiety drug target Date: January 28, 2025 Source: Weill Cornell Medicine Summary: Investigators have identified in a preclinical model a ...

Scientists have created a virtual brain network that can predict the behavior of individual neurons in a living brain. The model is based on a fruit fly's visual system, and it offers scientists a ...

A brain circuit-mapping technique has identified a specific circuit in the amygdala where activating metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 (mGluR2) reduces anxiety without side effects. This finding ...