We've never had an agreed-upon model for how the mind works; people have suffered from misinformed theories and treatments as a result. The work of today's behavioral neuroscientists deserves extra scrutiny as they develop treatments for mental health, explore the nature of consciousness, and further the development of artificial intelligences.

Feel like quitting? Blame your brain cells

Understanding the biological mechanisms of “giving up” in fish may teach us about complex human behaviors

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

3 peer comments

August 21, 2019

The right kind of post-stroke experience can rewire the brain for long-term recovery

3 peer comments

August 13, 2019

A protein in your brain behaves like a virus, infecting your cells with memories

Yewande Pearse, LA Biomed

August 7, 2019

How do we measure pain, anyway?

Jeremy Delahanty, UC Davis

2 peer comments

July 22, 2019

Those few cigarette puffs during adolescence might have altered your brain

Constanza Paulina Silva Gallardo, Pennsylvania State University

1 peer comment

June 30, 2019

Loneliness is an epidemic, and we can turn to technology to fix it

Sophie Okolo, Health Technology

3 peer comments

June 26, 2019

CRISPR nanoparticles are the next big hope in Alzheimer’s disease treatments

Tara Fernandez, Cell Biology

June 20, 2019

Testing drugs on stem cells in petri dishes may revolutionize our understanding of difficult-to-study diseases

Carina Seah, University of Southern California

4 peer comments

June 9, 2019

People with narcolepsy process humor differently

Quinn Eastman, Emory University

May 24, 2019

Microglia may be the missing clue to solve the opioid epidemic

These tiny cells have the machinery to sense opioids, and targeting them may relieve opioid addiction

Sara Whitestone, Université de Bordeaux

2 peer comments

May 23, 2019

Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brain

Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

2 peer comments

May 20, 2019

Neuroscience should take sex differences in the brain more seriously

Aarthi Gobinath, Neuroscience

7 peer comments

May 15, 2019

There won't be a cure for Alzheimer's disease in our lifetime

Norman A. Paradis, Dartmouth College

April 25, 2019

The medical jump from mice to humans just got easier

Kimberly McCoy, Biochemistry

4 peer comments

April 18, 2019

When finding a mate, intelligence matters to female parakeets

Therese Koch, Neuroscience

2 peer comments

April 15, 2019

Humans are two developmental stages away from monkeys

James R. Howe VI, UC San Diego

2 peer comments

April 11, 2019

Should parents fear potatoes as much as screens?

Jack Barton, University of Manchester

1 peer comment

March 18, 2019

Scientists sent thoughts from brain to brain with nothing in between

Jordan Harrod, Harvard University

1 peer comment

March 11, 2019

Scientists have got the recipe for growing miniature human brains just right

It's your favorite organ, self-assembling, ready to go

Paige Winokur, Rockefeller University

January 22, 2019

This is how the light from your phone breaks your internal clock

Jackie Grimm, Princeton University

November 14, 2018

With new technology, mind control is no longer science-fiction

Lily Toomey, Curtin University

October 10, 2018

It's time to focus on the connection between biology and consciousness

Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

June 22, 2018

That bossy GPS voice isn't actually necessary for navigating

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

April 16, 2018

People ask about my experiments on mice. The answers are … complicated

Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

December 27, 2017

The beautiful merger of art and science that inspired generations of neuroscientists

Elle O'Brien, Computational Neuroscience

November 30, 2017

Artificial intelligence isn't a 'black box.' It's a key to studying the brain

Daniel Bear, Stanford University

November 7, 2017

Scientists have learned to grow brain tissue to 100x (just add water)

Gregory Logan-Graf, Carnegie Mellon University

3 peer comments

November 1, 2017

Why scientists are exploring sleep deprivation as a treatment for depression

With an important caveat, losing sleep appears to have significant short-term effects on depression

Jack Barton, University of Manchester

1 peer comment

October 30, 2017

How machine learning is helping neuroscientists understand the brain

Daniel Bear, Stanford University

October 18, 2017

Can we reverse the effects of drugs on developing brains?

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

October 17, 2017

International collaboration is the best way to understand the complexities of the brain

Maya Emmons-Bell, UC Berkeley

October 10, 2017

The psychedelic renaissance is here. Will it last this time?

Benjamin Bell, Johns Hopkins University

October 9, 2017

Does modern neuroscience really help us understand behavior?

Danbee Kim, Champalimaud Foundation

Gonçalo Lopes, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

1 peer comment

October 3, 2017

How does the developing brain learn to perceive the world before it can see it?

Maya Emmons-Bell, UC Berkeley

3 peer comments

September 28, 2017

Can MDMA help people with autism overcome social anxiety?

Benjamin Bell, Johns Hopkins University

2 peer comments

September 27, 2017

Here's what happened when researchers raised monkeys who never saw a face

Daniel Bear, Stanford University

2 peer comments

September 26, 2017

How shaving mice led to an accidental discovery about our sense of touch

We're gonna need more shaving cream

Gregory Logan-Graf, Carnegie Mellon University

3 peer comments

September 25, 2017

Here's what happens to hamster brains when they don't get enough play

Brooke N Dulka, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

September 19, 2017

Physicist Max Tegmark explains why AI will help humanity flourish

Want to learn how brains go awry? First, we must learn how they work

Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

July 24, 2017

How scientists are mapping the brain networks that connect our childhoods to everyday behaviors

Prabarna Ganguly, Northeastern University

July 13, 2017

Will it ever be possible to measure subjective experience?

Neuroscientists proved the brain regenerates. Now they’re trying to figure out how.

February 2, 2017