The organisms living in your gut microbiome can influence your mental and physical health. Researchers have developed a way to better test for those biological effects.

Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that our brains can compensate for age-related deterioration by recruiting other areas to help with brain

Team-based targeted projects, multi-mentor fellowships ensure that scientists studying social cognition, behavior, and autism integrate multiple perspectives and approaches to pressing questions.

An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.

Lots of factors can influence your music taste, from your age and where you’re from to the personality traits you have.

Improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms of addiction can change how researchers and clinicians approach treatments.

Researchers survey a broadening landscape of studies showing what’s known, and what remains to be found, about the therapeutic potential of noninvasive sensory, electrical, or magnetic stimulation of gamma brain rhythms.

Across mammalian species, brain waves are slower in deep cortical layers, while superficial layers generate faster rhythms.

The preference for fairness emerges early in childhood, suggesting it is to some extent hardwired.

Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’