3+ hour, 34+ min ago  (513+ words) A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way to more precise and effective psychiatric drugs. For decades, scientists have built psychiatric drugs around neurons'the brain cells that send electrical…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (754+ words) Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs. Psychedelics can make people experience themselves and the world in striking ways'forms morph and sounds distort, and they can even lose…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1108+ words) Emma Jung, Toni Wolff and Sabina Spielrein were brilliant thinkers in their own right. Now, they are finally getting their due. For two generations, Emma Jung'the wife of the famous Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung'was remembered inside her family mostly as…...