Far from being lofty abstract ideals, our sense of right and wrong is woven into our biology. Modern neuroscience reveals that our brains literally reward us for treating others fairly and for placing ...

Los astronautas no son ajenos a las duras e inhóspitas condiciones del espacio exterior. Desde la radiación ionizante hasta la microgravedad, estos exploradores especiales están expuestos a una mirada ...

This study overall shows there is an interplay between the BBB and CB1 receptors on perivascular astrocytes that influences chronic stress resilience.

For years, BAMs were hidden in plain sight, often mistaken for other immune cells. That changed with new tools like fate mapping (tracks a cell’s developmental origin) and single-cell RNA sequencing, ...

Despite its technical subject, the book is not a plea towards the medical industrial complex. After spending his career developing patient interviewing methods that promote communication about ...

ECT, like any other treatment, has side effects, for which researchers have been and continue to investigate modifications to mitigate them. Modifications already implemented include muscle relaxants, ...

Imagine if scientists could control specific brain functions with the ease of flipping a switch. This vision is closer than ever, thanks to chemogenetics—a tool that allows scientists to precisely ...

By Megan (not that kind of MEG!) Hall. It’s easy to figure out what your brain looks like, but what is it actually doing? What does your brain’s activity look like? While we have many tools, like MRI, ...

Alvi is a second-year undergraduate student at Baruch College with a biology major and math minor. He is interested in the hippocampus's role in cognitive dysfunction, such as in neurological and ...

By Keionna Newton. Dopamine.You’ve probably heard about it before in passing or perhaps you’ve seen it in the headlines. Perhaps you’ve seen people on social media using buzzwords like “dopamine ...