Learn more about eLife assessments Blood flow to the brain is a sensitive marker of neuronal activity as well as of a number of diseases, including stroke, tumours and neurodegenerative conditions.

Jane Goodall documented chimpanzees performing rhythmic, repetitive movements at waterfalls — behavior she described as driven by awe, not survival. Ethologists have since recorded elephants touching ...

By combining psilocybin with a modified rabies virus that tracks neural connections, they mapped how networks change after a single dose. Earlier research from the same laboratory showed that ...

Background Fermented foods are a promising yet underexplored intervention for influencing brain function and mental health through the gut–brain axis. Objective The objective of this study was to ...

A recent study published in Psychology of Sport & Exercise has found that long-term engagement in competitive athletics is ...

Ripples maintain time-locked occurrence across the septo-temporal axis and hemispheres while showing local phase coupling, revealing a dual mode of synchrony in CA1 network dynamics.

Organoid Intelligence (OI) represents a groundbreaking convergence of biology and technology, aiming to redefine biocomputing using brain organoids—three-dimensional neural structures derived from ...