A federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs

A research hub for the science of placebo and nocebo effects: a daily-updated feed of new papers, a searchable tagged database, bibliometrics, events, resources and discussion.

Hands-on tutorials for the book Elements of fMRI Analysis: runnable MATLAB and Python code, thought questions, and self-quizzes for all 42 chapters.

A June 2026 Nature report revealed that mandatory reviews by top officials, checking for a list of 235 disfavored terms, have left hundreds of meritorious NIH applications in administrative limbo (Koz...

In just a few short days (August 15th, 2026), PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Over the past decade, our community has published over 58,000 preprin…

A modular, extendable system for checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

Indices of physiological arousal and sympathetic nervous system activity provide important information about pain that can supplement verbal reports....

The kappa opioid receptor (KOR) has emerged as a promising, nonaddictive analgesic target, yet the neural mechanisms underlying KOR inhibition of pain are not entirely understood. Here, we provide con...

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

In a nonhuman primate model, Fujimoto et al. show that deep brain stimulation promotes white matter remodeling and reorganizes brain-wide functional networks, detailing a mechanism through which this ...

Over six decades, Fields mapped out the circuits of both pain and addiction.

The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.

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The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Scientists have identified the brain circuits tied to placebo pain relief. Researchers have known that placebo effects can be a powerful treatment, yet the underlying neurological mechanisms have not ...