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Healthy adults were tracked before, during and after high doses of psilocybin and methylphenidate to assess how psychedelics can change human brain networks, and psilocybin was found to massively disrupt functional connectivity in cortex and subcortex with some changes persisting for weeks.

Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.

npj Aging - Investigating nutrient biomarkers of healthy brain aging: a multimodal brain imaging study

According to feline researchers, cats often get maligned as aloof and even spiteful, when many of them are quite social and eager to interact.

Researchers discovered that adaptive myelination, a form of brain plasticity, contributes to drug addiction.

Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?

We are told "the old ones are the best ones" – and some of the oldest jokes in history are still in use today. It’s worth going back a few thousand years to find out why.

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns

The private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.

Scorsese’s latest film looks to the past, but misses the larger picture.

No. It is a myth for mature trees but may work on very young trees with 1 to 3-inch diameters. In short, it depends. A high concentration of dissolved copper can kill trees.

Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji are preparing for their journey to China. Help the Smithsonian's National Zoo celebrate and say goodbye!

The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.

The Latest Studies on Sexual Attraction Would Make Darwin Sick But it explains why evolutionary psychology is problematic. Please note: I am moving content over to Substack. If you would like to …

In the face of new evidence, physicists are starting to view the cosmos not as made up of disparate layers, but as a quantum whole linked by entanglement

OSAKA -- A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c

The pandemic and its aftermath have raised anxiety to new levels. But the roots of anxiety-related conditions, including obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder (OCSD), are still unclear. In a new study, University of Utah Health scientists discovered insights into the importance of a minor cell type in the brain—microglia—in controlling anxiety-related behaviors in laboratory mice. Traditionally, neurons—the predominant brain cell type—are thought to control behavior.

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