A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...

Do our lives really flash before our eyes in death? A once-in-a-lifetime brain scan offers a glimpse at what the mind might be doing in our final moments. Death is perhaps the only thing we are ...

Researchers used a novel PET tracer to visualize how ketamine alters AMPA receptor distribution in the brains of patients with treatment-resistant depression. Receptor density increased in cortical ...

This news may put some minds at ease. “Our test identifies very early stages of tau tangle formation — up to a decade before any tau clumps can show up on a brain scan,” said senior study author ...

Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...

Chronic back pain changes brain responses, making everyday sounds feel more distressing than physical pressure.