Julia Sheffield, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has dedicated her career to solving the mysteries of psychosis. As a clinician, Sheffield, the Jack Martin, MD ...

The first hint of a brain developed on Earth around 600 million years ago, and now, some version of the organ can be found in nearly every animal in the world. Humans have the largest brain size ...

I like my student's brain on happy and so will you. Positive experiences change the brain by making happy connections between the thinking brain and the feeling brain. The more happy connections that ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things happen. But how it processes what you see—like objects or images—has been a ...

Jennifer Hammel (left) and Monet Roberts conduct research in senior author Jennifer Munson's Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. The team studies how chemotherapy drugs affect ...