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An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...

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The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries ...

The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today ...

Brushes with death can have lasting effects, but very few studies bother to ask children about them.

The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

Decades after building Infosys into an IT bellwether, the co-founder is now investing crores into mapping the human brain and ...

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behaviour. The word 'psychology' comes from the Greek words 'psyche', meaning life, and 'logos', meaning explanation. Psychology can teach you how to ...

When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a ...

Glioma is a tumor of the central nervous system that originates from glial cells, which support neurons in the brain. In the ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.