In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

Most people think of the gut as a digestive organ. Something that processes food, absorbs nutrients, and occasionally causes ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel.

The gut-brain connection is a two-way street. The brain has a direct effect on the stomach and tummy troubles can also send ...

Researchers discovered that psilocybin temporarily increases brain complexity and may reshape neural connections for weeks.