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Your brain responds to why you're drinking, not just what you're drinking

Drinking for relief produces a different reaction in the brain than drinking for reward does

Your brain rewards you when you explore new places

A new study used questionnaires and MRI scans to get to the heart of a similarity with rat brains

Go to bed: sleep deprivation changes how you experience pain

New research highlights the role of the nucleus accumbens in how sleep-deprived individuals respond to pain

New study finds that too much screen time can alter children's brains

WHO guidelines state that children between 3-4 years old should spend no more than one hour per day looking at a screen

Fact check: Those red blobs aren’t oxytocin

An amazing image has been making the rounds on social media, but the researcher who created it has set the record straight on what it shows

How humans have shaped the brains of our furry friends

By breeding dogs for specific behaviors, humans have also altered the physical structure of their brains

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That bossy GPS voice isn't actually necessary for navigating

New research suggests our brains update an internal 'cognitive map' when the environment changes