A preclinical study from Northeastern University has revealed astonishing evidence that psilocybin – the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms – could possibly repair brain damage caused by head ...

People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, ...

In a breakthrough that sounds more like a science-fiction movie than reality, scientists have successfully grown tiny human brain tissues inside rats. These “mini-brains,” also known as organoids, are ...

For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high ...

At last the scientific world has pushed me a few feet closer to living my dream of being a brain inside a robot ninja body. A team of British researchers took a blob of neurons from an embryonic rat’s ...

Researchers find that rats create neurological maps of places to avoid after experiencing a threat and think about these locations when exhibiting worry-related behaviors. These findings—which A.

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Researchers uncovered how estrogen subtly reshapes learning by strengthening dopamine reward signals in the brain. Rats learned faster when estrogen levels were high and struggled when the hormone’s ...