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How psychedelics work in the brain to alleviate sadness
Up to 30% of people with depression don’t respond to treatment with antidepressants. This may be down to differences in biology between patients and...
Monkeys can detect their own heartbeats, which is linked to human mental health, consciousness, and memory.
The big idea
Rhesus monkeys have a sense of when their own hearts are beating, according to new research we conducted.
Sensing one’s own physiological states...
Because our brains struggle with large numbers, it’s tough to comprehend what a million COVID-19 deaths truly implies.
As of April 2022, there have been nearly 1 million confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. For most people, visualizing what a million of...
AI maps psychedelic ‘trip’ experiences to brain regions, paving the way for new psychiatric therapies.
For the past several decades, psychedelics have been widely stigmatized as dangerous illegal drugs. But a recent surge of academic research into their use...
A neuroscientist explains that COVID-19 can leave behind even mild symptoms, such as a reduction of gray matter in the brain
Researchers have been steadily gathering important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and brain. Two years into the pandemic, these findings...
