Change in the brain usually comes with plenty of effort over time. Neuroscientists are working to understand how psychedelic drugs provide a shortcut that seems to rely on existing brain systems.

Harvard-led project seeks to create the first comprehensive diagram of every neural connection.

Neurons stochastically generated up to eight different versions of a protein-regulating neurotransmitter release, which could vary how they communicate with other cells.

From dopamine hacking to dopamine detoxes, some people have sought to harness this brain chemical to improve their mood and productivity. But it’s far more complicated than that.

Researchers compared a pair of superficially similar motor neurons in fruit flies to examine how their differing use of the same genome produced distinctions in form and function.

MIT researchers model and create an atlas for how neurons of the worm C. elegans encode its behaviors, make findings available on their “WormWideWeb.”

Research in mice suggests that brain cells called astrocytes could be key to staying awake without cost to cognition or health.

We still don’t know a lot about how the networks of cells in the brain enable conscious experience.

The discovery of new types of cells in the brain of developing flies clarifies how the insects develop sight.

A new technology called RIBOmap can give researchers valuable insight into how protein production in animal and human tissue is altered in disease.