Dopamine works as a crucial messenger in our brains, with imbalances causing a variety of brain disorders.

The brain stores memories by changing how neurons talk to each other.

Learn how your brain creates dreams while you sleep.

Explores one process by which sleep is thought to play a role in properly regulating synapses — the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis.

This video explains the science behind visual illusions.

This video shows how the right-and-left-brained belief came to be and why it is a myth.

Conspiracy theories take advantage of our pattern-seeking brains by grabbing attention, triggering strong emotions, and giving meaning to random events. Researchers think dopamine could be to blame when people forgo the facts for fiction.

Thirst is a basic drive for people to consume fluids, motivated by brain and body regions working to maintain homeostasis, or an internal physiological balance.

Theory of mind is your ability to infer and understand other people’s thoughts, desires, and beliefs — no telepathic superpowers required.

Misbehaving neurons trigger seizures in the neurological disorder epilepsy.