"They just need to change their mindset,” some leaders say. Mindset is powerful and malleable. But we can have greater impact ...

Heavy use of cannabis recently or at any point in a person’s lifetime was tied to decreases in brain function during a working memory task, a new cross-sectional analysis showed.The data indicate ...

Three studies at the University of Zurich demonstrate that hypnosis alters activity in the large-scale functional networks of ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Anterior insula, medial prefrontal cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex associated with history of heavy use.

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in ...

Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became ...

While stress is an unfortunate fact of modern life, scientists are still learning how it affects us. Chronic stress, in ...

Humans have certain instinctive fear reactions to things that won’t actually harm us—we might jump at a too-loud noise or ...

According to Bottemanne and Joly, brain imaging studies have shown that fathers can experience alterations in gray matter across many different brain regions. Gray matter is the cortical tissue that ...

Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

Scientists have cracked the code of the decision-making process in the human brain. The prefrontal cortex is the key to ...