A study found that vaporized cannabis rapidly increases food intake by activating brain reward circuits rather than true ...

A nyone who has even a passing familiarity with cannabis can tell you the munchies are real. Although it’s a phenomenon that’s well known to science, the research on it is lacking. Or at least it was ...

For decades, the idea that the human brain might naturally produce the psychedelic compound DMT has attracted considerable attention. It has been speculated that DMT could function as a natural ...

It’s not in your stomach; it’s in your head. Scientists have mapped exactly how cannabis overrides your brain's satiety ...

A new study finds no evidence of naturally occurring DMT or its storage in the serotonin neurons of the rat brain.

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the ...

Two independent research teams have successfully regenerated mouse brain circuits in mice using neurons grown from rat stem cells. Both studies, using interspecies blastocyst complementation to study ...

Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Researchers fed separate ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...