A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

Do our lives really flash before our eyes in death? A once-in-a-lifetime brain scan offers a glimpse at what the mind might be doing in our final moments. Death is perhaps the only thing we are ...

Researchers identified three distinct brain “biotypes” of ADHD, each with its own chemical signature—offering new clues about why treatment can feel like trial and error.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are computational models that can learn to identify patterns in data, make accurate predictions or generate content (e.g., texts, images, videos or sound ...

Chronic back pain changes brain responses, making everyday sounds feel more distressing than physical pressure.

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most feared illnesses of old age. It slowly destroys memory, thinking ability, and ...

This news may put some minds at ease. “Our test identifies very early stages of tau tangle formation — up to a decade before any tau clumps can show up on a brain scan,” said senior study author ...

Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...

Brain scans may be able to detect autism in children as young as six months old, according to a first-of-its-kind study happening in Minnesota. “It was a really remarkable finding,” said Dr. Meghan ...