Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

The world's largest brain research prize awarded for groundbreaking discoveries on how we sense touch and pain ...

How does the brain process the complex flood of visual inputs? A new study at the University of Konstanz on larval zebrafish gives answers, combining behavioural experiments, advanced brain imaging ...

If the award-winning 1967 movie The Graduate were remade today, the film’s memorable word would need to switch from "plastics" to "plasticity," to mark the present as well as the future.

Relying on fruit flies, several scientists are achieving new insights into how neurons in the brain are connected and send signals to control movements. A closer understanding of these neurological ...

Ultra-processed foods engineered with precise ratios of sugar, salt, and fat activate the same dopamine pathways as nicotine ...

Cancer tumors hijack the vagus nerve to communicate with the brain, triggering a hormonal response that suppresses the immune system.

Neurological pathways ID’d in chronic back pain Greater connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex areas of the brain increase the likelihood that back pain will become chronic.