One new study don find say children wey develop severe malaria fit suffer lasting brain damage, wit survivors scoring lower ...

A study analyzing 1,154 children and adolescents breaks new ground in how to think about the growing diagnosis.

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

Psychedelics work on the brain by increasing the functional connection between the thinking and sensory regions, temporarily blurring the line between perception and thought, an international ...

Mass General Brigham researchers used long-term data and a blood test for the biomarker pTau217 to identify the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively healthy adults.

Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if ...

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown. In particular, children who struggle with ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs. A new analysis broadens our understanding of psychedelics, such as the psilocybin ...

New research suggests a blood test may identify Alzheimer’s years before it is detectable on scans. Image credit: Sean Locke/Stocksy At present, diagnosis typically involves a combination of medical ...

It happens every day at North Shore University Hospital’s busy emergency department in Manhasset — patients who have fallen and hit their head are brought in for evaluation and possible treatment.

The hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe pelliculosa, which contains psilocybin shroom360 via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Mind-altering psychedelics continue to show promising research results ...

Different psychedelic drugs have a strikingly similar effect on networks in the brain, finds the most comprehensive analysis so far of the mind-altering substances. The work, published in Nature ...