Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

A new study by Scripps Research reveals that alcohol dependence disrupts two signaling pathways in a stress-related part of the brain—and offers insights on developing drugs to treat this condition.

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

Tufts University School of Medicine researchers developed imaging technology that records neuronal activity throughout the brain during the first weeks of recovery. They discovered that a head injury ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...