Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, breaks down the brain mechanisms behind obesity and how to empower patients and improve ...

A recent study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology provides evidence that using cocaine and alcohol together ...

More than 50 million adults in the United States live with chronic pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Deep within the brain, scientists have uncovered a hidden “switch” that may decide whether pain fades away—or lingers for ...

The placebo effect has long been dismissed as purely psychological, regarded as a mental trick with no real biological basis.

The researchers found a pathway that connects the brain's stress centers to the region responsible for habits and decision‑making. The stress centers include two small regions deep in the brain called ...

(NewsNation) — For more than 60 years, doctors have prescribed metformin as a frontline treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Now, researchers say they’ve uncovered something that was hiding in plain sight: ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new pathway in the brain that can be manipulated to alleviate depression. The pathway offers a promising new target for developing a drug that could ...

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

CBD may help rebuild brain connections by acting as “molecular glue,” offering a new path for Alzheimer’s treatment research.

In a groundbreaking study, a New York University Langone research team believes they have honed in on the brain pathways of a genetically determined repetitive motor behavior that is linked to autism.