Neuroscience

Ultra-processed foods and cigarettes share parent companies and sales tactics

It’s the same reason steaks are delicious

A study in mice suggests loss of estrogen between brain cells as a possible cause

People with amygdala damage are shedding new light on why we trust or fear others

Young scientists dream up a way to decipher the mind’s eye with EEG and AI

It’s more awake and alive to the outside world under anesthesia than we thought

Cue the Grateful Dead

A conversation with renowned neuroscientists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl Miller about categories, “folk psychology,” beginner’s mind, and thinking fast and slow

And what it has to do with Thomas Edison

First “smell map” reveals organization where scientists had predicted chaos

Get a grip

For the first time, scientists are studying these mysterious states in real time