Jon Hamilton
A single high dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months
A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study ...
‘It’s like a throbbing pain that becomes quite unbearable’: What happens in the brain when a limb is amputated
Like many people who've had an amputation, [Emily] Wheldon often feels pain in her phantom arm and hand. "It's like ...
Keeping your brain young and slowing cognitive decline as you age
Scientists have unveiled the strongest evidence yet that a combination of diet, exercise and brain training can improve thinking and ...
A scientist’s brainy trip: How psilocybin creates an extraordinary new sense of space, time and self
In the name of science, Dr. Nico Dosenbach had scanned his own brain dozens of times. But this was the first time ...
Race and health: One gene variant carried mostly by people with African ancestry quadruples risk of Parkinson’s disease
A global effort to make genetic studies more diverse has led to a discovery about Parkinson's disease, a common brain ...
Brain-computer implants restore some speaking ability to paralyzed patients
Pat Bennett takes part in a research session, using a brain-computer interface that helps translate her thoughts into speech ...
Traumatic brain injuries can damage short-term memory. A potential solution? It’s shocking
More than 1.5 million people in the U.S. sustain a TBI each year. Common causes include falls, motor vehicle accidents, ...
At 9 months old, this girl had half her brain removed — and 15 years later, she is thriving.
People like Mora represent the upper bounds of human brain plasticity because their brains were radically altered very early in ...
Video game therapy? Upbeat computer games boost ketamine’s power as an antidepressant
Computer games designed to boost self-esteem appear to prolong the antidepressant benefits of the mind-bending anesthetic ketamine. A recent study ...
When does brain function peak? Scans show how brains grow and shrink
The human brain starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. That's the conclusion of a project that used ...
Why art and music therapy appear to ease brain disorders, from Parkinson’s to PTSD
Arts therapies are increasingly being used to treat brain conditions including PTSD, depression, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. But most of these ...
Video: ‘Ultimately, I want to build a heart for sick kids’: Watch these robotic fish ‘swim’ using lab-grown cardiac muscle
Scientists have built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells. The fish, which swim on their own, ...
The brain science behind thirst
It feels so simple. When we're thirsty, we drink. But the brain science behind that decision is pretty complicated, a ...
‘Bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the protective blood-brain barrier’: For a sizable percentage of hospitalized COVID patients, the coronavirus targets the brain
The current catalog of COVID-related threats to the brain includes bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the ...
Alzheimer’s is almost impossible to treat. Now there are treatments drawing on brain waves and protein tangles in the pipeline beyond the focus on sticky amyloid plaques
Immune cells, toxic protein tangles and brain waves are among the targets of future Alzheimer's treatments, scientists say. These approaches ...
Generous apes: What explains the evolution of human kindness?
With chimpanzees, the prospect of food can lead to aggression. But bonobos take a different approach, says Suzy Kwetuenda, a ...
Natural chefs? Chimps learn to use an oven, sparking debate on how humans learned to cook
If you give a chimp an oven, he or she will learn to cook. That's what scientists concluded from a ...