Researchers have shown that pain-induced changes in the rat brain’s opioid receptor system may explain…
NEUROLOGY & MENTAL HEALTH
A new tool developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has determined, for…
A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as morphine and oxycodone,…
In a study of mice, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers describe a new circuit involved…
A brain-imaging study offers new support for the idea that infants can accurately track other…
A new study identifies a molecule that may be critical to the repair of white…
In a new study, Columbia scientists have discovered why the brain’s olfactory system is so…
Alzheimer’s disease currently affects more than 5.5 million Americans and is one of the costliest…
MIT neuroscientists have developed a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensor that allows them to…
Cocaine and other drugs of abuse hijack the natural reward circuits in the brain. In…










