Key brain areas involved in the effects of psychedelic drugs are located in the default mode network (DMN), which is more active at rest than when attention is focused on the external environment.

Marketers often talk about getting inside the heads of their consumers, though it may be more useful to talk about getting inside their brains, an infographic from MainPath Marketing shows. Think of ...

More commonly, researchers have blamed the innate immune system—triggered by the pathogens once they enter the brain—for Alzheimer’s pathology. The activation of Toll-like receptor 2, for example, ...