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

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

A new study found that 20 minutes a day of physical activity helped children with attention disorders concentrate on school tasks. And the best part – the effect lasted even into the next day.

Psychedelics appear to reshape how the brain builds reality by dampening incoming visual signals and boosting internal memory networks.

What if the pictures in your mind were not just faint impressions? Hyperphantasia shows how imagination can become both a ...

In amblyopia, the brain and the affected eye do not work together properly. The brain begins to favour the stronger eye and gradually ignores signals from the weaker one.

Thyroid hormone and Vitamin A transform blue eye cells into red and green ones. This transition builds the eye’s center, ...

Humans develop sharp vision during early fetal development thanks to an interplay between a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones in the retina, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found. The ...

The perception of faces where none exist can be a window into how the brain makes sense of the world. This phenomenon, known as pareidolia, reveals the fundamental architecture of visual cognition: a ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

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 ...

A secondary analysis of the KARE trial found that ketamine’s psychoactive experiences did not predict alcohol abstinence in ...