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Learn all about psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance that can be obtained from certain types of mushroom, commonly referred to as ‘magic mushrooms.’

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital collaborate on groundbreaking study of this chronic disease affecting millions.

In a general sense, medical studies support the popular intuition — a staple of movies and literature — that suicidal behavior and substance misuse are linked.

New research investigates the surprising interaction between the muscular contractions of our heart and feelings of familiarity. Physiology is stranger than fiction.

According to a new study acetaminophen could be impeding error-detection in the brain.

The blood-brain barrier has stymied direct treatment of brain disorders. In a recently published study, a researcher reports finding a way to pass therapeutics through the barrier, using readily-available agents.

Individuals with greater heart rate variation are more likely to have less biased, wiser judgement than those with lower heart rate variation, according to new research.

How the human brain processes the words we hear and constructs complex concepts is still somewhat of a mystery to the neuroscience community. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can alter our language processing, allowing for faster comprehe…

Blue on, yellow off: using different-colored light, researchers are able to switch signalling pathways in the brain on and off. Depending on what kind of melanopsin the researchers used, signalling pathways were switched on either transiently or sustai…

Researchers have developed an intracellular recording device, a long three-dimensional nanoscale-tipped microneedle-electrodes. Moreover, they demonstrated the needle penetrations into muscle cells and measured the signals. The nanoelectrode, whose siz…