Current treatments for alcohol abuse are limited in their effectiveness and come with side effects. Precisely targeting the neurons involved in binge drinking could lead to better options.

Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.

Science has done many things that seem miraculous. Why not transfer your consciousness to a machine?

How do animals and humans come up with novel ideas? It may be down to some very specific cells.

New findings show that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged neural networks in Huntington's and other diseases.

Pain is unpleasant, but it does have a purpose.

It turns out that the neural circuit behind the jaw movement most essential to survival—eating—is surprisingly simple.

Researchers have identified the specific neurons that trigger sneezing and coughing in mice.