Brain & Behavior

Controversial drug approval spotlights emerging tests for Alzheimer’s-related proteins

Algorithm creates words, sentences from neural activity

Study claiming evidence for the unusual treatment raises eyebrows

Scientists warn of efforts to insert commercials into dreams

Studies of interoception challenge distinctions between disorders of the brain and body—and may hold clues to the basis of consciousness

FDA breaks from advisers to clear Aduhelm based on reduction of toxic brain plaques

Multidomain studies look for brain benefits from multiple lifestyle changes

Homo erectus endocasts reveal a mixed bag of primitive and modern brain features

Imaging with sound could offer a less invasive way to send commands to prostheses

Device gives scientists rare glimpse of what’s going on inside an animal’s head

Method of studying “microdosing” could offer new routes for drug research

Organoids develop genetic signatures of postnatal brains, possibly broadening their use as disease models

Dreaming experiments involved real-time conversations between sleepers and scientists

A single genetic tweak changes or-ganoids’ shape and cellular connections

Analog of ibogaine could hold hope for humans

Independent experts push back against regulators’ optimistic view of clinical data