By Joan L. Luby, M.D., Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., and John N. Constantino, M.D.

Evidence continues to mount that the brains of children living in poverty show tangible harm. Our authors explain the challenges and the necessary steps needed to build a healthier society.

By Tor Wager, Ph.D.

Our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about pain can affect the actual physical pain that we feel. What does pain look like in the brain, and how are new research findings leading to effective new treatments?

A Q&A with Karl Deisseroth, a winner of the 2021 Lasker Prize in Basic Medical Research for his pivotal work in optogenetics and author of the widely praised book, Projections: A Story of Human Emotions.

Neuroscientists around the globe have new tools to study the integral role that sleeps plays in memory. But they agree that there are still many questions to be answered.

This year’s winning entries on the 20th anniversary of the annual Neuroscience for Kids Poetry Contest, which is designed to educate kids about the brain through creative writing.

By Anne Glowinski, M.D., M.P.E.

All refugees fleeing armed conflict and danger share the same, almost unbearable human anguish, thirst for justice, and for the fraternity of others more fortunate.

A federal law against “facilitating illegal drug use” hampers efforts by New York and other states to maintain overdose prevention centers.

Words of thanks and farewell from Cerebrum Editor Bill Glovin.

By Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., and Timothy Brennan, M.D.

Our authors, who direct the Addiction Institute for the Mount Sinai Health System, address the substance-abuse avalanche brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cheryle St. Onge’s photographs won the annual Bob and Diane Fund award—a grant that increases the understanding of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Randy L. Buckner, who was ranked among the top ten most influential brain scientists by Science magazine in 2016, answers questions about his role in the discovery of a brain network that is triggered by thinking when the brain is at rest or imagining possibilities.

Covid precautions have led to a massive increase in treatment via screens and phones. Is it worsening health disparities—and changing medicine permanently?

Since the first Brain Bee in 1998, the competition has inspired many of its top finishers to pursue careers in neuroscience and related fields.

As the field of neuroprosthetics emerges, privacy and others concerns need to be considered.

By Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

A young man was told he hadn’t sustained a head injury after a car accident. But when he dropped out of graduate school months later, a visit to a specialist revealed what an initial diagnosis failed to detect.

Are those who perform before the public—hundreds, thousands, even millions of spectators at a time—at heightened risk of mental illness? It’s complicated.

The 2021 Brain Prize went to four people whose independent research led to useful treatments for a disorder affecting a billion people.

After receiving his degree in neurobiology, Daniel Roy decided to pursue a career as a magician, a profession that requires a unique understanding of how the mind works.

A sampling of work by Dana Simmons, Ph.D., a neuroscientist who created works of art from the beauty she saw through the use of microscopy to study autism.

So far, the story of the new drug Aduhelm, intended to treat signs of Alzheimer’s disease, is “buyer beware.”

A psychiatrist falls seriously ill, and considers anew the dogma not to share details of one’s life with one’s patients.