Stress is often seen as harmful, but a neurobiologist said it actually plays an important role in helping humans survive. However, problems can arise when the body’s stress response stays active for ...

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been ...

Tthe brain's parenting circuitry (MPOA) drives helping and comforting behaviors toward peers through the dopamine reward ...

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

A new genomic study isolates a mania-specific factor that explains over 80% of bipolar disorder’s genetic risk, tying it to ...

Sasha S. Rao and Todd M. Hopfinger of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC discuss challenges in meeting patent law's disclosure requirements for inventions involving artificial intelligence, ...

Psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin and MDMA may help repair the brain’s insulating myelin layer, according to new research.

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been ...

Imagine arriving at a busy location with people moving around and a multitude of visual and other sensory cues vying for your ...

Researchers have built new photonic computing chips that allow neural networks to learn using ...

Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

The results include a comparison between two different basis functions for temporal selectivity and how these generate different predictions for the dynamics of neural populations. The conclusions are ...