Columbia University researchers reveal targeting a specific serotonin receptor can help to boost memory formation. The study reports targeting 5-HT4 receptors could help improve cognitive impairment.
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··4 min readResearchers adapt the popular 'bag of words' algorithm to tack every move of a Hydra.
Researchers have identified neurons that help to initiate an escape from danger response in fruit flies.
A new PLOS ONE study reveals there was a 10 percent increase in suicides in the months following Robin Williams' death. Researchers report, significantly, there was a 32 percent increase in suffocation suicides in the 5 months following Williams' death by the same method.
Study reports the effects of prenatal famine can cause metabolic health problems in offspring up to six decades later.
Researchers call for regulations and ethical guidelines to help protect personal privacy and autonomy for those who use neurotechnologies.
A newly developed cognitive hearing aid can monitor brain activity to determine who a person is listening to and amplifies that voice to assist the listener. The technology can help a hearing impaired person follow a conversation in a noisy environment far more easily.
Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have been able to capture how glutamate opens glutamate receptor ion channels. The Nature study provides significant insight into how receptors can mediate brain function.
A new study reveals a link between a food allergy diagnosis and social anxiety in children of low socioeconomic status. The study found 57% of children with food allergies report anxiety symptoms. Researchers suggest food allergies are linked to elevated social anxiety, fear of social rejection and also humiliation in children.
By capturing a cell by cell view of seizures propagating through a mouse brain, researchers discovered neurons fire in a sequential pattern, regardless of how quickly the seizure occurs. The findings confirm seizures are not a result of neurons going haywire.
Researchers report memories that trigger PTSD and anxiety can be erased without affecting other memories.
T cells may be tricked into thinking dopamine neurons are foreign due to the build up of damaged alpha-synuclein, a new study reports.
