This perspective also helps reconcile the role of brain changes in addiction. Neuroadaptations still matter: they can ...

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion ...

Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling 'drowsy' to 'a complete absence of conscious awareness.' Neuroscientists and philosophers compile what we ...

Can a psychedelic drug help cure depression, addiction, and even strokes? At UC San Diego, scientists are putting that idea to the test.

Ines Ibañez-Tallon is revealing how an understudied region of the brain plays an outsized role in opioid and nicotine ...

It sends messages from your brain to the rest of your body and helps you respond to changes inside and around you. Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system.

The authors describe these states in which parts of a person's brain appear asleep as "local sleep episodes." An increase in neural activity in posterior cortical brain regions can also lead to ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior.