Researchers found that excessively activated neurons over time, rather than decreased neuronal activity, cause aging-related decline in brain function in nematodes.

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

Upheaval within the brain’s higher order network could explain psilocybin users’ feelings of profound connection to the ...

Some researchers believe DMT, a powerful psychedelic that may naturally occur in the brain, could be your soul’s “ferryman.” ...

Last year, the path to FDA authorization of the psychedelic drug MDMA for treatment of PTSD hit an unexpected snag. It later ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

I found myself in the surreal position of taking enormous doses of drugs with a group of women I'd known for less than 48 ...

For a full year, a church in Colorado Springs has been providing psilocybin mushrooms to its members at no cost, citing legal ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

In a step towards suspended animation of people, slices of mouse brains have shown near-normal activity after being stored at ...

A new study suggests that creativity maps onto a common brain circuit and that injury and neurological disease have the ...

Three studies at the University of Zurich demonstrate that hypnosis alters activity in the large-scale functional networks of ...