The placebo effect has long been dismissed as purely psychological, regarded as a mental trick with no real biological basis.

I have spent many years as a psychiatrist being frustrated at the lack of treatment options for patients with terribly debilitating psychiatric illnesses.” — Dr. Mary L. Phillips, Distinguished ...

Researchers discover that the brainstem can reorganize neural circuits within 24 hours to restore sound offset detection ...

New research shows that sleep loss alters specific memory circuits, but also hints that a familiar compound may help restore ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...