People with substance use disorder—whether addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or nicotine—share a strikingly similar ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, a Boston College research team led by John Christianson explored how a pathway between two areas of ...

A minor under the legal age of 14 who commits a crime but is not subject to criminal punishment. Society calls them ‘juvenile ...

You don’t manage focus like a habit. You manage focus like a brain state. Your brain state may be the most valuable ...

A Paris Brain Institute study has identified the rostral prefrontal cortex as a key 'bridge' between the brain’s spontaneous and goal-oriented networks, crucial for creativity. Using patients with ...

When stress rewires your brain so completely that peace feels like a foreign language, these seven neurological changes ...

TikTok is full of claims that a mid-20s breakup is imminent once your frontal lobe fully develops. Is there any truth to it?

From a brain imaging perspective, marijuana use is consistently associated with measurable changes in brain function,” Dr. Daniel Amen, founder of Amen Clinics, which has conducted hundreds of ...

This study presents a valuable finding on how the locus coeruleus modulates the involvement of medial prefrontal cortex in set shifting using calcium imaging in mice. The evidence supporting the ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...

For more than a century, scientists have divided the brain into regions based on how brain tissue looks under a microscope. The maps have shaped how researchers study thinking, decision-making, and ...