Mar. 8, 2024 Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It's a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Researchers discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. This circuit is under control of a brainstem ...
Mar. 6, 2024 A new tool captures data from an unprecedented 1 million neurons simultaneously, painting a much fuller picture of brain ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Researchers have introduced a new method for in vivo brain imaging, enabling large-scale and long-term observation of neuronal structures and activities in awake mice. This method is called the ...
Mar. 4, 2024 A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain gets to the creative flow ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Scientists have been examining the relationship between childhood adversity, and psychiatric decline as well as adult adversity and psychiatric and cognitive ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Magnetite, a particle found in air pollution, can induce signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, new research ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Researchers report that a single glial cell uses different molecules to communicate with different neurons. Careful clustering of these molecules ensures that the glial cell can conduct a distinct ...
Feb. 28, 2024 New research provides new insights into the brain processes underlying cocaine addiction. The findings are crucial for developing new therapeutics and identifying an imaging marker for cocaine use ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Researchershave found that brain cell activity during sleep is responsible for propelling fluid into, through and out of the brain, cleaning it of ...
Feb. 28, 2024 The eyes have been called the window to the brain. It turns out they also serve as an immunological barrier that protects the organ from pathogens and even tumors, researchers have found. In a new ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Scientists may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children's eyes move when they turn their ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Scientists have created a novel organoid model of the human brain that contains astrocytes -- which have been excluded from other models thus far -- to study inflammation in diseases like ...
Feb. 27, 2024 In a new perspective article, researchers underscore the importance of integrating environmental effects into genetic research. The authors discuss how failure to do so can perpetuate deterministic ...
Feb. 27, 2024 A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of ...
Feb. 27, 2024 When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers investigated how the lack of mental imagery affects long-term memory. They were able to show that changes in two ...
Feb. 27, 2024 The activity of Snhg11, a gene found in the 'dark matter' of the genome, is critical for the function and formation of neurons in the hippocampus, specifically in an area critical for ...
Feb. 26, 2024 The mechanisms by which antidepressants and other emotion-focused medications work could be reconsidered due to an important new breakthrough in the understanding of how the gut communicates with the ...
Feb. 26, 2024 How does listening to live music affect the emotional center of our brain? A study has found that live performances trigger a stronger emotional response than listening to music from a device. ...
Feb. 26, 2024 Results from a large clinical trial show that an intervention for anxiety provided to pregnant women living in Pakistan significantly reduced the likelihood of the women developing moderate-to-severe ...