For the first time, researchers can study auditory hallucinations in mice
Am I Hearing Things?
Brain Maps
Special cells in the brain help you navigate your world
Can a high sugar diet change how you taste?
A recent study found that consumption of a high sugar diet had lasting effects on sweet taste perception.
Brain Beats
Can’t figure out what to listen to next? Try out binaural beats!
The Endogenous Opioid System: Your Body’s Natural Pain Reliever?
How does your body use its natural systems to relieve pain? Might we be able to use what we know about natural pain relieving processes in order to treat chronic pain and battle the opioid epidemic?
Too hot to handle
Why does too much spice feel like fire?
Tone-Deafness and the Brain
How does our brain help us sing in tune and what goes wrong in tone-deaf individuals?
Echo, Echo
Humans and bats use similar strategies to localize sounds
The Cells of Consciousness
How close is science to finding the cellular source of consciousness?
No pain… a lot to gain
Can anesthesia lead us to better pain killers?
The Sound of Music Therapy: Harmony between the Brain and its Memories
How can scientists and health professionals harness the power of music for more than just dancing?
Masters of Disguise
How swinging a bat and camouflage are more similar than you think
Psychedelics lead to long-lasting brain changes
These substances could prove to be potential therapies for mood and substance disorders.
Sense from the Noise
How do our brains sift through the clutter?
These Circuits Were Made for Walking
A baby’s first steps
A Sense of Attraction
What do a refrigerator and a sea turtle have in common? Surprisingly, magnets.
A World Without Smell
What causes someone to lose the sense of smell?
Artificial Sweeteners and the Brain
Are they really better for you?
LSD on the brain
A psychedelic drug may be a therapeutic breakthrough
Every Time We Touch
How the brain senses touch, pain, and temperature
What happens when people are missing important parts of the brain?
Absolutely nothing, some studies suggest
The World in Color
How do our brains perceive color, and why do some people and animals see color differently?
The protein that makes you feel pain
Different conditions uncover how one protein is important in controlling pain
Parched
The neuroscience of thirst
The Voice Within
How can brain-computer interfaces be used to restore speech?
Neuroethology: The wild side of neuroscience
What do bats, zebra finches, electric fish and honeybees have in common? They are all species that are studied in neuroethology!
The scent of memory
Smells can trigger powerful emotional memories
Manipulating Memories
As we learn more about how memories are formed and stored in the brain, researchers are now discovering the many ways in which memories can be altered on a neuronal level.
Your Brain With A Migraine
Migraines are much more than just headaches, so what exactly is going on in the brain to cause them?
Unconscious Vision
How our brains can “see” after blindness
