New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

Psychedelic substances are increasingly being used under medical supervision to treat anxiety disorders and depression. However, the mechanisms by which these substances influence our perception and ...

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard ...

About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in the Great Lakes region are warming and trending ...

This important study provides new insights into the synchronization of ripple oscillations in the hippocampus, both within and across hemispheres. Using carefully designed statistical methods, it ...

A study led by a team from the University of Barcelona is helping to resolve some enigmas about the causes of the displacements in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), one of the most influential ...

From cadence to stride length and resting heart rate to average pace, runners – and, of course, most running apps and GPS running watches – now record and track a wealth of health and fitness-related ...

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...

This is an important paper that reports in vivo physiological abnormalities in the hippocampus of a rat model of traumatic brain injury (TBI). In this study, authors focused on changes in theta-gamma ...

Synchronization between cells plays a critical role in cell-to-cell communication. Although electrical and chemical communications were studied, mechanical communication is recently recognized as a ...

Since technology is not going anywhere and does more good than harm, adapting is the best course of action. That is where The Tech Edvocate comes in. We plan to cover the PreK-12 and Higher Education ...