What if the brain prepares your actions before you ever “decide”—and what does that really mean for free will?

Two new studies of the Nova rave music festival terror attack reveal that taking psychedelics changed people's responses to ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until after death. While most brains rot quickly, researchers have found a ...

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the ...

A new study reveals that brain networks associated with a person’s history of traumatic experiences can temporarily quiet down when confronted with a new, mild stressor. This finding, published in the ...

Most of us carry fears we can't fully explain. Maybe it's the sight of a spider, the feeling of being trapped in a small ...

Besides the amygdala, another important region of the brain, known as the hippocampus, is also involved in the fear response.

Social media algorithms shape what users see, influencing emotions, perceptions, and mental well-being in ways that often go ...