Scientists believed we evolved to respond to alarming screams faster than non-alarming ones, but experiments show our brains may be wired differently.
In 1971, doctors eased chronic pain by sending electrical impulses to the spinal cord. Fifty years later, improved techniques help paralyzed people walk.
The plant deters mosquitoes and fruit flies by triggering a chemical receptor that, in other animals, senses pain and itch.
Three fantastical tales of where neuroscience might take us are based on the progress made by brain researchers in the last 100 years.
A needlework project pays tribute to the iconic drawings of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Healthy mice mirror a companion’s pain or morphine-induced relief. Disrupting certain connections in the brain turns off such empathetic behaviors.
After hours of isolation, dopamine-producing cells in the brain fire up in response to pictures of humans, showing our social side runs deep.
Researchers found that a compound in psychedelic mushrooms eased depression symptoms, but larger studies are needed.
In mice, immune cells in the meninges are trained to battle infections in the gut before migrating to the brain.
The fate of an Alzheimer’s drug, developed by pharmaceutical company Biogen, remains up in the air.