Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

Bringing mice to an enclosure and zapping their feet with tiny electric shocks, then bringing the mice back to the enclosure ...

In the modern era, a nation's prosperity is defined by the strength of its human capital, not its natural resources, but its minds. Yet in Ethiopia, a combination of wars, political instability, and ...

The study, led by UTSA psychology professor Itamar Lerner, involves collaboration with first responders, such as firefighters ...

A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related neurons in the amygdala.

Tiny flashes of light from your cells may transform our understanding of mental health. The science of biophotons reveals a ...

In a demographically diverse sample of healthy people, Cornell researchers found dramatic changes over the human lifespan in ...

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 16% of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress ...

Watch UChicago neurobiologist Mark Sheffield and his team investigate the mechanisms of memory by studying neuron activity ...

Learn how psychedelics can enhance adaptability in the brain, improving learning and memory for conditions like PTSD.

Her PTSD symptoms crept back ... By 2020, the circuitry of her brain felt rewired enough that she could talk about the memory without descending back into it. She no longer needed therapy.

post-traumatic stress disorder and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders such autism. “This work is laying a potential foundation of trying to understand how the brain normally ...