Developing invisible implantable medical sensor arrays, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has overcome a major technological hurdle in researchers’ efforts to understand the brain.

A fly’s sense of smell could be used in new technology to detect drugs and bombs, new University of Sussex research has found.

University of Haifa researchers find a functional link between the brain region responsible for taste memory and the area responsible for encoding the time and place we experienced the taste.

Improvements were seen within four weeks and generally persisted during treatment duration.

Researchers at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry have explained why marijuana in small doses can cause paranoia, and higher doses that mimic long-term exposure can result in apathetic and emotionally-blunted behavior

Sleep difficulties may be linked to faster rates of decline in brain volume, according to a study published in the September 3, 2014, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Some people take stress in stride; others are done in by it. New research at Rockefeller University has identified the molecular mechanisms of this so-called stress gap in mice with very similar genetic backgrounds — a finding that could lead researchers to better understand the development of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Boston researchers see benefit from behavioral weight loss program designed to curb food addiction

Study also confirms presence of genetic variation in alcohol-dependent patient population.

A new study at Wellesley College demonstrates that the immune system can produce cells with stem cell properties.