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This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

New research has suggested that the delusions and hallucinations that psychosis patients experience results from the malfunction of two important systems in the brain; one system acts as a filter that ...

The prevalence of overweight and obesity is largely driven by the widespread availability of high-calorie and highly ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

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Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it ...

A 2023 study found that shorter sleep duration causes reduced brain cortical thickness. Sleep disorders increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, stroke, and cognitive decline. Chronic sleep deprivation ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...