The review by researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK looked at 30 published studies conducted in cell cultures and ...

This post was coauthored by Gabriella P. Oettinger and Juan M. Dominguez, Ph.D. As we begin the new school year, the importance of understanding the challenges and risks that students face becomes ...

What if a single choice could hijack your brain’s wiring, rewriting your behavior, judgment, and even your ability to survive? The human brain is an essential organ in the body, responsible for ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

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Psychedelic drugs are being investigated as scientific and clinical tools, but the brain mechanisms behind their effects remain unclear. Earlier brain imaging studies in small cohorts from single ...

A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry provides evidence that a combination of non-invasive brain scanning and computer modeling can successfully measure how a dementia drug ...

Researchers are using an advanced brain imaging method called MEG to understand why Parkinson’s drug levodopa doesn’t work equally well for everyone. By mapping patients’ brain signals before and ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a ...

There’s something a little bit magical about anesthesia. One minute you’re there, the next you’re not—and as you go under, you might entertain the nurses with some bizarre chit-chat you’ll be ...

You already know about the gastrointestinal ones.

Different psychedelic drugs have a strikingly similar effect on networks in the brain, finds the most comprehensive analysis so far of the mind-altering substances. The work, published in Nature ...