Conversations with the people who study the brain

Chronic pain can outlive its cause — but the same plasticity offers a path to relief.

Emotions may be predictions your brain constructs, not reactions it simply has.

Mapping a living, talking brain reveals how flexible and personal our wiring really is.

Understanding dopamine helps us treat addiction with compassion instead of blame.

Your eyes send limited data — the brain fills in a rich world by constantly guessing.

Rare cases of fearlessness reveal exactly what the amygdala does for us.

Babies are statistical geniuses, absorbing the patterns of speech long before their first word.

Forgetting isn’t failure — it’s an active, useful feature of a healthy memory system.

We’re moving past the ‘chemical imbalance’ story toward a richer picture of brain networks.

Sleep isn’t downtime. It’s when the brain cleans, sorts and files everything you learned.

Understanding migraine as a neurological event — not just pain — is changing how we treat it.

We think of time as a clock ticking, but the brain constructs it from memory and attention.