20+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1012+ words) Rats given LSD, psilocybin or 2C-B showed three different brain patterns, and the psychedelic drugs still differed a week later. Psychedelic drugs get filed together: one receptor, one sort of trip, one promise for depression, anxiety and addiction. In rats,…...

21+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1022+ words) Musical training made volunteers quicker to anticipate a pattern, but two minutes of watching a different one undid most of their gains. Getting faster at a movement pattern looks like getting smoother, and for a while it is. But push…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (977+ words) Brain recordings reveal that people blend competing goals rather than simply switching from one choice to another. When your phone buzzes on the way to the kitchen, you don’t stop and pick one. You drift toward it, then back, doing…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1017+ words) A review of 57 studies reveals why music can ease pain, with personal choice, enjoyment, and active participation emerging as important factors. People put on music when something hurts, usually on the theory that it pulls attention away from the pain....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (943+ words) A surplus of insulating brain cells, low on one protective protein, tracked the steepest cognitive decline in adults followed since childhood. After 70, memory and quick thinking slow down for most people, and the usual explanation is that the brain’s wiring…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1157+ words) Early stress in mitochondria before birth helped mouse hearts resist later chemotherapy damage by creating lasting protective changes. Chemotherapy can save lives, but some drugs can also put the heart under serious strain. Doxorubicin, a chemotherapy used against several cancers,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1184+ words) Confidence builds a sense of control, and two brain circuits turn that estimate into how much you learn from a win or a loss. When a job application disappears into silence, you have to decide whether the resume was weak…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1003+ words) Carefully timed sounds can make fluid waves larger in the sleeping brain, giving researchers a new way to study how brain activity and CSF flow are connected. Sleep is often treated as a time when the brain simply shuts down....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (982+ words) Ten minutes of very slow running improved mood, mental speed, and activity in brain regions linked with control. Exercise is often linked with long workouts, fast running, and heavy effort. That can make the idea of exercising for brain health…...