What if a single choice could hijack your brain’s wiring, rewriting your behavior, judgment, and even your ability to survive? The human brain is an essential organ in the body, responsible for ...

Daiza Gordon watched her two younger brothers die when they were adolescents. They had Hunter syndrome, a rare, incurable disease — predominantly affecting boys — in which a gene for an important ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

Advancing neurological disorder research requires model systems that more accurately reflect the human brain. 3D cell cultures, such as organoids and spheroids, have emerged as game-changers by better ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep ...

New research reveals that the human brain contains a built-in pain map that activates in different regions when relieving ...

There are more than 7 million people currently living with the devastating disease known as Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's causes changes to the brain that result in memory loss, moodiness, trouble learning ...