The Psychological Trap: Individuals recovering from a heart attack experience depression and anxiety at a rate up to three times higher than the general population. Alarmingly, cardiac patients who ...

As neuroscience strives for generalizability and equity, understanding human brain diversity across populations is crucial.

A new study reveals how the brain rewires sensorimotor pathways to preserve walking stability during visual impairment.

Cognitive neuroscience integrates studies of brain structure and function to elucidate how anatomical substrates give rise to perception, action and higher cognition. Investigations combine structural ...

Unravelling how the billions of interacting neurons in the human brain conjure consciousness is one of the greatest challenges in twenty-first-century science. Over the past decade, large, well-funded ...

The 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize will be awarded to UCSF neuroscientist and Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

The Importance of Gliotransmitters for Brain Function, Plus Cognitive and Motor Efficiencies Gliotransmitters are neurochemicals released by glial cells. They support communication between neurons and ...

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New research from King's College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...