Rutgers researchers have discovered a new mechanism that may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury. They now hope
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Prenatal exposure to cannabis impacts sociability of male offspring only
Taking cannabinoids during pregnancy can cause behavioural and neuronal deficits in adult male offspring, while females remain unaffected, says new
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Great minds may think alike, but all minds look alike
The brain is a complex network containing many billions of neurons. Each neuron is connected to thousands of others via
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Why Do Some of Us Shiver When We Pee?
Almost everyone will be familiar with the comical sight of a baby who suddenly elicits a violent shudder: It's a
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How dying neurons control eating behaviors of the brain microglia: Aberrant clearance activity of microglia in particular brain regions leads to changes associated with neurodegenerative diseases
A new Mount Sinai study, published July 23 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, provides important insight into how microglia, cells
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Neural inflammation plays critical role in stress-induced depression
A group of Japanese researchers has discovered that neural inflammation caused by our innate immune system plays an unexpectedly important
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New regulator of neuron formation identified
The protein NEK7 regulates neuron formation, as it is required for dendrite growth and branching, as well as the formation
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Consciousness is partly preserved during general anesthesia
When people are administered an anaesthetic, they seem to lose consciousness — or at least they stop reacting to their
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The increasingly efficient teenage brain: Changes in brain network connectivity may refine cognitive abilities that develop during adolescence
Some brain networks become more densely connected during adolescence while others become less so, according to a new analysis published
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Freedom from fear: Dopamine’s role in unlearning fearful associations
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain that is necessary for unlearning
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