Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a fleeting injury into long-term suffering.

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved ...

For the first time, scientists using cryo-electron microscopy have discovered the structure and shape of key receptors connecting neurons in the brain's cerebellum, which is located behind the ...

A newly identified brain circuit in mice may explain why we sleep longer and deeper after being sleep deprived – and lead to new treatments for sleep conditions ...

How Brain Activity Reveals What Makes You Thrive Researchers found that you need six peak experiences per day for long-term thriving.

Light at night negatively affects mood in diurnal primate-like tree shrews via a visual pathway related to the perihabenular nucleus ...

Mind We've figured out how our brains sort imagination from reality Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely a product of our ...

A new study published in PNAS shows that mice spontaneously groom and lick unconscious peers, helping them recover from anesthesia. This behavior is driven by oxytocin-related brain pathways, ...

Researchers identified a direct connection between cancer-related inflammation and the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer. In a mouse study, they describe a brain pathway that ...

Studying mice with cancer-linked cachexia, a condition typical of the disease that leads to muscle wasting and weight loss, they discovered a previously unrecognized pathway in the brain.