"We show that the overwhelming majority of brain regions that predict fear only ... being approached by a big hairy spider. "We tried to find really scary videos of spiders," says Satpute, who ...

Wise commenter of this parish Steve K posted a comment on this story about bees that can add and subtract, which reminded me of some spider research I read about a while ago. In that research, a ...

A NASA article from 1995 shows just how toxic caffeine is to the brain. Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals — including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine — and ...

Meanwhile, his work on gut pain does not require the drug to pass the blood-brain barrier and is closer to clinical trials. “We stumbled across a spider-venom peptide that activated neurons ...