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In the wake of cannabis legalization, a team of scientists have delivered encouraging news for chronic pain sufferers by pinpointing the effective dose of marijuana plant extract cannabidiol (CBD) for safe pain relief without the typical ‘high’ or euph…

Emotional exhaustion can arise after a period of excessive stress. Some people are more at risk than others, including those in demanding jobs or with caring responsibilities. People may not always recognize the signs of emotional exhaustion. Here, we …

Researchers have now discovered that stress-induced mental disturbances in mice are directly linked to abnormal glucose metabolism. Normalizing the stress-induced alterations in glucose levels, using the anti-diabetic drug empagliflozin, restored spati…

If your relationship is making you so unhappy, why is it so hard to break up? A new study finds an unexpected answer to this question.

Halloween is just around the corner, and some people will celebrate by watching scary movies about brain-eating zombies. But even more frightening are real-life parasites that feed on the human brain, and they can be harder to kill than their horror-mo…

MIT neuroscientists present a new model of working memory that explains how the brain holds information in mind (the ‘memory’ part) and also executes volitional control over it (the ‘working’ part).

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain tries to compensate for its poor performance in tasks that require complicated mental transformations.

Cannabis withdrawal syndrome is real and can have ‘highly disabling’ effects — especially psychologically — warn the authors of a new study.

As you encounter new experiences and form new memories, your brain changes. Now, researchers show that some of these change occur in a brain region devoted to visual perception.

Experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed that the brain’s parahippocampal place area responded more strongly to a scene recognition task while the occipital place area responded more to a navigation task.