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Neuroscientists found 'no evidence' that smoking pot damages an important brain region
In the case of the amygdala, the researchers write that the smaller brain region may be explained b…
Are You A Social Butterfly? It Can Change Your Brain For Good
According to researchers from the University of Oxford, people with bigger social networks often ha…
Brain damage helped these cigarette smokers quit, researchers say. The findings could one day help people overcome addiction.
Scientists who studied brain scans of smokers who coincidentally quit after experiencing brain dama…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
Sitting too much may weaken areas of the brain associated with memory, a new study found
On average, the participants sat between three and seven hours per day. But the more people sat, th…
Kevin Loria
Forget what you learned in school — the brain might not work in 'regions' after all
It is widely believed that brains are organized in regions that each have a purpose. New research s…
Marianne Guenot
This Is What Happens In Your Brain When You See A Sexy Person
Dopamine: Helen Fisher [of Rutgers University] asked newly ‘love struck’ couples to have their brai…
Jennifer Welsh
Human brains are hot, and women's brains are hotter says a new study
The map overturns several previous assumptions and shows the remarkable extent to which brain …
This Is Your Brain On Mushrooms
The data visualization below (b) shows how these new connections among separate regions of the brai…
Erin Brodwin
Scientists Found Something Strange When They Looked At The Brains Of Pot Smokers
For starters, this study - which was the first ever to look at the longterm effects of weed smoking…
Erin Brodwin
How Tripping On Mushrooms Changes The Brain
In a 2012 study, Imperial College London neuroscientist David Nutt found that in people drugged wit…
Erin Brodwin
This mind-blowing brain map accomplishes something that scientists have been working on for 100 years
Still, architectural differences can only tell us so much. Outdoors, a patch of grass might be a si…
Erin Brodwin
Scientists Just Released A Set Of Fascinating New Brain Maps [IMAGES]
For example, here is a 3-D visualization of the connections between four visual areas in the mouse …
Lauren F Friedman
Here's how different drugs change your brain
The part of the brain cocaine affects the most includes key memory centers that help us recall wher…
Erin Brodwin
Here's how many years a relationship expert says to wait before tying the knot
"One of the problems with early stage intense feelings of romantic love is that it's part of the ol…
Jessica Orwig
Video gaming can lead to better cognitive performance in children says new study
Contrary to the popular belief that playing video games is linked with mental health problems, a ne…
We're finding out more about how a seemingly unlikely drug might one day be used to treat depression
For their small pilot study of just 12 people with severe depression whose illness didn't respond t…
Erin Brodwin
Researchers discover a way to deliver drugs to the brain using a remote control
The researchers successfully implanted the device, which is about the width of a hair, into mice fo…
Cadie Thompson
AI can identify clinically anxious youth based on brain structure: Study
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help recognise individuals with anxiety disorders based on their u…
PTI
Here's what losing weight does to your body and brain
Besides the decreased risk of heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes, sc…