Did you know that one in ten Americans struggle with alcohol or drug addiction, and two out of three people with addiction misuse alcohol? The brain responds to pleasure the same way, whether it comes ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Scientists and experts have long studied the human brain, discovering the cognitive differences between the right and left hemispheres.

President Obama’s 2014 budget includes a request for $100 million from Congress in order to launch the Brain Research Activity Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Word ...

When you’re so tired and you haven’t slept a wink, your mind goes on the blink. That’s more than just a play on a quaint batch of Beatles lyrics. It’s the truth. The sleep-starved mind is a mind on ...

How’s your stress level? Manageable – you get stressed, but it passes pretty quickly, and you sleep well at night. Challenging – you hang on to some stress, and it affects your personal life and/or ...

Several routes exist for immune cells and neurons to communicate, though T cells rarely come in direct contact with neural tissue. This communication can happen as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows from ...

To grow brain organoids, researchers have traditionally cultured human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which develop into clumps of tissue with embryonic features. That tissue is then bathed ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There’s a lot more going on in your brain than meets the eye when you spot McDonald’s golden arches or Nike’s signature swoosh. In 400 ...

Research has shown that the brain can be primed for this sort of thinking. To see how, check out the infographic below from Happify, a company that builds online games designed to boost personal ...

The first complete living model of the developing human brain has been created in a lab dish. Researchers grew human stem cells in an environment that encouraged them to form pea-size gobs of brain ...

Your brain and your digestive system are intricately linked. They interact so closely that some say they should be taken as one system. The link is the vagus nerve, a direct neuronal connection ...