Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist? It’s important to realize because as a leader, it can affect not just you and how you think, but also the culture you create and what the people you lead ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a previously uncharacterized neural circuit that directly links ...

Bickering political parties, holiday strife, the next deadline at work. Stress in life is ubiquitous and subjective. To me, a day in Disneyland is a treat; to my partner, a nightmare. Identifying what ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

Because unpleasant withdrawal symptoms fuel nicotine addiction’s high relapse rate, targeting their underlying mechanisms with treatments may promote continued abstinence from the drug. In a new ...

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides a detailed look at how the psychedelic drug psilocybin facilitates the unlearning of fear in the brain. The research reveals that the drug does ...