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
Iron concentrations in teenagers' brains can be linked to their cognitive abilities
Also, women reach peak iron concentration in their brains earlier than men
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
Do dogs really, truly understand what we tell them?
Scientists trained some pups to endure MRIs to help find out
That bossy GPS voice isn't actually necessary for navigating
New research suggests our brains update an internal 'cognitive map' when the environment changes
Here's what happened when researchers raised monkeys who never saw a face
We may not be hardwired to recognize faces after all