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A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and ...

For the first time, scientists using cryo-electron microscopy have discovered the structure and shape of key receptors ...

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Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

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Texas has moved to fund research into ibogaine, a psychedelic drug that may help treat addiction, depression and brain injuries. Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill last week approving $50 million in ...

In a study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researchers used brain imaging technology to peer inside the minds of people making moral decisions. Whether someone acted on their own or followed ...