Scientists have long known that stress and addiction travel together, but the biological connection between a hard day and a ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium ...

A major discovery reveals that metformin works not just in the body, but in the brain. By switching off a key protein and activating specific neurons, the drug lowers blood sugar through a previously ...

A newly identified brain circuit may hold the key to understanding why some pain fades while other pain lingers long after ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on ...

How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

Why do stressful moments so often push people toward habits like drinking? A new study from Texas A&M University offers one ...

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

While diabetes medications are not considered as targeting the brain, the study, published in the journal Science Advances, ...

Gut microbiome changes may drive age-related memory loss via inflammation and disrupted brain signaling, but interventions in mice show this process can be reversed.

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...