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Toddlers Care What Others Think: Sensitivity to How Others Evaluate You Emerges by 24 Months

Neuroscience NewsAugust 27, 2018

A new study reports children as young as two years old are able to evaluate the opinions of others and will modify their behavior accordingly when others are watching them.... Read More...

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How the Brain Decides to Make an Effort

Neuroscience NewsMay 15, 2018

A new study sheds light on the neural mechanisms behind how we make effortful decisions. ... Read More...

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Direct Amygdala Stimulation Can Enhance Memory in Humans

Neuroscience NewsDecember 19, 2017

Researchers report in a new PNAS study that direct stimulation of the amygdala can enhance memory of images a day later, if the stimulation is applied immediately after the images are viewed.... Read More...

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Helping the Brain Prune Bad Habits

Neuroscience NewsNovember 30, 2017

Emory researchers report a drug approved in Japan for stroke, can help to stimulate neural pruning and help reduce habit driven behaviors in mice.... Read More...

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New Wake Promoting Node Pinpointed in Brain

Neuroscience NewsNovember 10, 2017

A new study reports supamammillary glutamate neurons in the caudal hypothalamus play a critical role in wakefulness.... Read More...

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Granulins Are Brain Treasure, Not Trash

Neuroscience NewsAugust 15, 2017

A new tool allows researchers to observe granulins inside cells. ... Read More...

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Insight into Learning via ‘Friend of Fragile X’ Gene

Neuroscience NewsAugust 9, 2017

Researchers report FMR1 and ZC3H14 proteins both regulate mRNA, which may explain their importance in memory and learning.... Read More...

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How Children Look at Mom’s Face Is Guided by Genetics and Disrupted in Autism

Neuroscience NewsJuly 12, 2017

According to a new Nature paper, variation in how children seek social information is under genetic control. Such behaviors are decreases in children with autism, adding further evidence for the link between behavioral presentation in ASD and underlying genetics causes.... Read More...

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Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Spurred By Same Enzyme

Neuroscience NewsJuly 3, 2017

Researchers have implicated an enzyme that appears to make both Tau and alpha synculein more toxic in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Inhibiting this enzyme has already proved helpful in treating animal models of Alzheimer's disease. The researchers report they are moving on to testing drugs that inhibit AEP in animal models of Parkinson's disease.... Read More...

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How Hearing a Warning Sound Turns Into Fearing It Over Time: Mouse Study

Neuroscience NewsJune 23, 2017

Researchers identify a new mechanism that contributes to learning an association between a warning noise and a fearful event.... Read More...

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How Dads Bond With Toddlers

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 17, 2017

According to a new study, fathers given a boost of oxytocin expressed increased activity in brain areas associated with empathy and reward when viewing photos of their small children.... Read More...

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How Hearing ‘Twist My Arm’ Engages the Brain

Neuroscience NewsDecember 14, 2016

Researchers discover metaphors that involve body parts such as arms or legs, such as 'twist my arm, engage a brain region responsible for the visual perception of those parts.... Read More...

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Neuroscience

Engineered Enzyme Eliminates Nicotine Addiction in Preclinical Tests

Hippocampus Yields Clues to Treatment Strategies for Cognitive Deficits in Multiple Sclerosis

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Hippocampus Yields Clues to Treatment Strategies for Cognitive Deficits in Multiple Sclerosis

Researchers Break New Ground in Understanding the Workings of the Lymphatic System

AI

Detecting Fake News, At Its Source

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Improvement if Humanlike Conversations in Humanoid Robots

Psychology

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