Molecular biologist and chronobiologist Amita Sehgal investigates fly genetics to reveal the secrets of slumber.

Ants scurrying across your picnic basket may offer a fount of inspiration for modern medicine.

For those with PTSD, a stressor linked to a memory of a harrowing, traumatic event produces a grave sense of danger or fear — inducing a pronounced fight-or-flight response.

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Drug abuse is one of the nation's most serious health problems. About 9 percent of Americans, more than 22 million people, abuse drugs on a regular basis. Drug abuse, including alcohol and nicotine, is estimated to cost the U.S. more than $600 billion each year.

Three neuroscientists discuss how addiction is a disease of the brain, as well as prospects for improved pharmacological treatments.

Adolescents’ brains are highly capable, if inconsistent, during this critical age of exploration and development. They are also acutely tuned into rewards.

Chronic pain carries on for longer than three months despite medication or treatment, and it has an array of causes and implications for health and wellbeing.

New tools are helping neuroscientists investigate why early life is such a crucial time for neural development.

Epilepsy is a disorder characterized by repeated seizures caused by abnormal excitation of large groups of neurons in various brain regions.