Online brain rot leaves us feeling sad and scattered and yet we often struggle to resist it. A new study explains why.

You’ve likely heard that the brain isn’t fully developed until someone’s around 26 years old. But did you know that the brain rewires itself throughout the lifetime? University of Cambridge ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The brain does not have the ability to rewire itself—such as following ...

You can change anything about yourself if you try hard enough - from losing weight to better mental health, all it takes is the right amount of willpower. Right? As you may have figured out by ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended the decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

Using psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, to treat depression is not a new idea. What is new is some research, published in the scientific journal Cell, that suggests psilocybin isn’t ...

Social isolation activates a brain circuit that increases alcohol drinking in male mice, revealing a biological link between loneliness and alcohol use.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. The image is representative of the general pattern ...