Researchers tease out the effects of the two cravings by having participants gamble for the chance to satisfy them.

A study in people fails to detect differences in the brain’s response to fear or anxiety, long thought to be controlled by different neural circuits.

Unusually Wired: Human Brains are Attuned to Appreciate Musical Pitch

When 70 independent teams were tasked with analyzing identical brain images, no two teams chose the same approach and their conclusions were highly variable.

Those who had developed PTSD appear to be less able to suppress unwanted memories—traumatic or not—suggesting a role for the general ability to control memory recall in the disorder.

Imaging reveals how cyclical patterns of brain activity differ between conscious and unresponsive individuals.

A small study finds that patients who had half their brains removed to treat epilepsy have stronger neural networks than controls, perhaps explaining how they can retain language and cognition skills.

During deep sleep, rhythmic pulses of cerebrospinal fluid are coupled with slow waves of electrical activity and fluctuating blood levels in the human brain.

The auditory cortices of humans and rhesus monkeys respond very differently to harmonic tones.