Neuroscience
What a Blissful Psychedelic Trip Looks Like Inside the Brain
Personality and context shape the psilocybin experience in ways that show up on brain scans
How Paying Attention to Pain Could Help You Heal Faster
Close attention might be part of your immune system
The Quest to Understand the Forgotten Psychedelic
One of the first scans of mescaline in the brain suggests it travels a different path
30 Minutes, 3 Exercises: A Routine for an Aging Brain
And you thought you were done with the three Rs
When Dreaming Gets Your Heart Moving
Deep dreaming may be more in tune with the body than we thought
Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer’s—How Complex Mental Maps and Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed
Depression Linked to Shrinking Brain Region in Older Adults
The memory center of the brain show signs of decreasing volume
How Dreaming Drains Your Energy
The brain makes its bed long before we dream, and the neurons don’t call all the shots
Does Watching TV Really Rot Your Brain?
Generations of parents have a new piece of scientific evidence to combat couchpotatoism
Some People Are Better at Eavesdropping Than Others
New study shows what happens in our brains as we track multiple conversations
Can a Preteen’s Reaction to a Face Predict Their Future Social Lives?
The developing brains of boys and girls light up differently when shown a face











