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Dopamine Signaling
Introverts have social batteries that will drain over time, but they can be recharged with good energy hygiene. Here’s how.
Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.
Neuroscience supports the notion that mindfulness and meditation should become essential assets in our workspaces.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
“The field is endless, but my life is limited, as are all of ours. But you do what you can with your time,” says CSO Mart Saarma.
You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.
“I think it has a real chance to reverse motor symptoms, essentially replacing a missing part.”
"They decreased their drinking to the point that it was so low we didn’t record a blood-alcohol level."
Striking differences in the composition of the gut microbiome suggest that fermented food could help those suffering from anorexia.
If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
Risk-taking isn't inherently bad: It tends to build self-confidence when things work out, and resilience when they don’t.
Million Stories
When migraine and tension-headache patients overuse their medications, they can actually trigger more headaches.
Some experiences continue to pay dividends time and time again.
Million Stories
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
The cannabis plant produces both THC – the psychoactive component in marijuana – and the compound commonly known as CBD, which does not lead to a "high."
It's perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.
The key to curbing sugar intake may lie in the gut rather than our tastebuds.
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
Willpower alone likely isn't enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
John Templeton Foundation
The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.