Neuroscience

Say it out loud and something shifts. Naming a feeling ("I'm sad," "I'm anxious") is one of the few pieces of folk psychology to survive contact with a brain scanner: label the emotion, and the…

Researchers at the University of York report that patterns in brain activity recorded while people learned word-and-picture pairs differed depending on whether those pairs were still remembered after…

The striking thing about psychedelics, clinically, is how long a single afternoon seems to last. A person takes one dose, spends a few hours somewhere strange, and reports feeling different for…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared a Roche blood test intended to help doctors in primary care, not only specialists, check whether a patient's memory problems are likely to involve…

The adult human hippocampus produces new neurons through a chain of cell states, and that chain appears to stall partway in people who had major depression, according to a study of donated brain…

For decades, the story of Alzheimer's has been told from the outside in: sticky plaques between neurons, tangled fibers within them, a slow siege on the brain's wiring. But the plaques and tangles…

Two people drawing together show more closely matched brain activity than when they draw alone, and that coupling moves in opposite directions over six sessions depending on whether the pair are the…

Motor neurons in the fruit fly's feeding circuit help set the order in which muscles contract rather than only carrying commands to them, a Peking University-led team reports in a paper published…

Human brain organoids kept in culture for more than five years went on maturing, and their molecular age tracked how long they had spent in the dish, a group led by Paola Arlotta of Harvard…