A new study suggests that the long-term antidepressant effects of psychedelics may be driven by persistent changes in how ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

When the brain is asked to stretch beyond routine, that slight mental discomfort is often the sign that the brain is being ...

Major depression is not only a crisis of mood, it is also a crisis of biology that reshapes the brain itself. As genetic tools sharpen, scientists are now tracing how inherited risk for depression is ...

From helping you to focus more to improving sports performance, some scientists believe 'depositing' sleep for later use can ...

Ten days before investigators say Katlyn Lyon Montgomery, 28, was strangled in her sleep in the Virginia apartment she shared with her 4-year-old daughter and a new roommate, she had broken up with ...

A huge new tranche of files on millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released Friday revealed details of his communications with the wealthy and powerful, some not long before ...

Newly disclosed government files on Jeffrey Epstein show authorities thought they were close to indicting the wealthy ...