Middle age is a famously harried time of life. Plus, the violence and corruption in America today is a soul- and ...

In ‘The Balanced Brain,’ the overlap between the chemical signals for hunger and anger shows how emotions and bodily states are closely linked. The following is an excerpt from The Balanced Brain: The ...

Human beings have always had a strong need to make sense of the world around them. This was undoubtedly part of (although by no means the only) the original function of religions. In non-theistic ...

So, how can the emerging neuroscience of predictive processing help explain ME/CFS and long COVID? Well, as I discussed in a previous post, these conditions may be precipitated by a sort of confidence ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech conducted revolutionary real-time recordings of neurotransmitter activity during a behavior task, offering unprecedented insights into brain function. Their study, ...

Blindsight is the phenomenon in which blind people can interact with their environments even though they can't see it. It could be navigating obstacles or even saying what is in front of them with ...

"How do you get a philosopher off your porch?" "Pay him for the pizza." Why is that funny? Sharon Begley, a Newsweek science writer, says that the cognitive scientist Matthew Hurley, of Indiana ...

Drexel’s Bachelor of Science (BS) in Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary program for students interested in the biological bases of thought and behavior. This major is well-suited for students ...

Long before the world had ever heard of covid-19, Kay Tye set out to answer a question that has taken on new resonance in the age of social distancing: When people feel lonely, do they crave social ...

More than seven million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and two-thirds of them are women, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. The O’Banion Lab at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at ...