The Neuroscience Review

The biggest single-site psilocybin brain-imaging study yet finds hidden order where scientists expected chaos.

You don't see the world.

General anesthesia does not switch your brain off.

A 26-year study found that reaching midlife without high blood pressure, diabetes, or smoking was linked to 12.6 more dementia-free years.

They’re sold as shortcuts to muscle, healing, weight loss, even a sharper brain.

A brain implant caught sentences a person only imagined.

The same pill is a first choice for depression and for panic, social anxiety, and OCD.

A young owl in goggles that shift its whole world sideways, and the map of sound in its brain sliding over to match.

One of the most popular myths about the brain.

A 2023 trial cleared amyloid plaque from people's brains with the drug donanemab and modestly slowed their decline.

A 2011 study switched on a pinhead of neurons in the mouse hypothalamus and a calm male attacked almost anything.

You spend a third of your life unconscious and you can't skip it.

You can swallow a pill and it reaches your whole body, but most drugs never reach your brain.

When a headline says a brain region lit up, what was measured?

A memory isn't a recording filed away in a drawer.

Dopamine isn't really the "pleasure chemical."

A neuron isn't just "a brain cell that sends signals."