The stress hormone cortisol disrupts the brain's grid cells, blurring the internal GPS system and impairing navigation.

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

The traditional boundaries between professional and personal life are increasingly blurred. The idea of work-life balance — where work and personal time are neatly divided — has given way to a more ...

A study published in Nature Communications in January 2026 found that general intelligence does not reside in any single ...

It has long been understood that experiencing two senses simultaneously, like seeing and hearing, can lead to improved responses relative to those seen when only one sensory input is experienced by ...

A recent study in Translational Psychiatry shows that one dose of DMT reversed loss of pleasure and cognitive deficits in stressed mice. The psychedelic promoted new brain cell growth, highlighting ...

Scientists from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital studied a hypothesis that anesthesia drugs bring about sedation by causing different parts of the brain to lose functional ...