Psychiatrists warn that doomscrolling rewires brain pathways, fuels anxiety, impairs decision-making, and raises stress, ...

Thursday night, Hailey, 25, kept glancing at her phone. She’d showered, picked an outfit, even double-checked the bar’s ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

While we've known for some time that obesity affects the brain, scientists have found that, more importantly, it's where you ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a ...

Neurobiological conditioning is the process by which we learn to associate these cues with the behavior. Once conditioning ...

A comprehensive new review published in the journal Science China Life Sciences synthesizes decades of research to explain how anxiety and depression arise from a complex interplay of genetic ...

A new study highlights how the brain learns to keep alcohol addiction going, not for pleasure but to escape withdrawal stress.

The link between gut microbiome and eating behaviours, especially palatable food intake, is a growing focus of scientific investigation. The complex ecosystem of microorganisms in the gut influences ...

For decades, scientists have worked to peer deeper into the brain. They have wanted to see not just surface activity in the cortex but also the hidden layers beneath, such as the hippocampus, where ...

Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...