Rats do not simply drift through vague, sleepy fog. Their brains light up with detailed replays of the day, from sprinting ...

Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much ...

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

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Monkey experiments hint at a "motivation brake" pathway between two brain regions. Manipulating it may lead to new treatments ...

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

New brain imaging research shows grip strength is linked to activity deep in the aging brain, offering clues to early ...

MIT researchers report that astronauts’ brain positions change in microgravity, based on MRI scans from space missions ...

Spaceflight takes a physical toll on astronauts, causing muscles to atrophy, bones to thin and bodily fluids to shift.

Stress is the body's natural response to everyday difficulties and challenges, which can even be beneficial in the short term ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to analyze medical images, materials data and scientific measurements, but ...

A new machine-learning-based approach to mapping real-time tumor metabolism in brain cancer patients, developed at the ...