Playing video games may seem like a harmless way to unwind after a long day at work or school. However, gameplay can ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

The detox wasn’t absolute. Participants were spending about two hours a day on social media. During the detox, that dropped ...

A study highlights distinct brain activity patterns in boys and girls with familial substance use disorders, indicating predisposed addiction risks. Published in Nature Mental Health, findings suggest ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of ...

Marriage may serve as a training ground for self-control,” said University of California, Los Angeles neuroscientist Arpana Church.

Social media has become a political weapon. The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how personal Facebook data was weaponised ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a brain circuit that can drive repetitive and compulsive behaviours in mice, even when natural rewards such as food or social contact are ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Science has always relied on young innovators to drive progress. In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, still PhD students, founded Google. More recently, in 2020 and 2021, Kizzmekia Corbett, then a ...

For the Savannah Morning News Thanksgiving edition this year, we decided to ask Savannahians and visitors what they were grateful for. Turns out, thanks and giving are contagious.