Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep them from sticking together. The breakthrough enables the production of ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the human brain may organize its many cognitive functions by ...

A new study from Wake Forest University School of Medicine found that people living in socially and economically ...

Scientists found that childhood trauma can change DNA and brain development, leaving long-term biological marks.

Researchers have discovered some good news about the march of time, and there’s less to dread and more to celebrate.

The rate of smoking cigarettes has steadily declined since the 1960s – when Congress required warnings on cigarette boxes.

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

New research reveals that child maltreatment leaves measurable biological “scars” on DNA, altering brain structure and function.